Additional observation: Last night, I sent my laptop to hibernate and accidentally switched to console output. For some time, nothing happened (the system looked quite crashed) but then, a few messages popped up on my screen which I was able to quickly grab with (*cough*) my cellphone. Anyways, this is what the system reported before hibernating properly (there could be errors, since my cellphone-camera is quite crappy and I had difficulty reading the text from the image. :
MMC: killing requests for dead queue **** backup - CPU0 stuck for 11s! [pm-hibernate:15678] [fglrx_enable_pat] *ERROR* Pat entry 2 is already configured On resume this morning, there was a beep sound (as mentioned above) but the system came up flawless. -- [Hardy] Message: "Suspend Problem. Your computer failed to suspend" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/199088 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs