By sleep of death I mean that there is disk activity, cpu goes into hi gear, then the run led shuts down, the sleep led comes on and nothing works except holding down the power button until the system shuts down. This happened when I first loaded 9.10 from the DVD in the magazine Ubuntu User. So I tried it with the CD from UDS-L and got the same behaviour. So I tried the Kubuntu 9.10 from UDS-L and it ran fine except it took Jonathan Riddle 1/2 an hour to get on the WiFi there. When I shut down another developer spent over a 1/2 hour and could not get Kubuntu 9.10 to connect to the WiFi again although he was looking at the ./bash_history of the previous success. The kernel team told me there was a fix in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingKernelSuspendHibernateResume or https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingKernelSuspend so I went to both places but could not solve the problem.
Next I did a search in Launchpad and found about 90 things marked "solved" for this problem. After too much wasted time I found one that said "poke around in" url.... The user said thanks, I solved it and he did not mention anything about how he solved. This struck me as the very poor communication which I see so often which seems to me to be the greatest problem holding back the adoption of Linux. So I went back to 8.04 to get some urgent things done. At night, I again loaded the 32 bit 9.10 from Ubuntu User. Then I loaded the kubuntu-desktop. Then I upgraded kubuntu and ubuntu. The problem still occurs only in Ubuntu 9.10 not in Kubuntu 9.10. It also happens when the only window I have open in Gnome is the terminal and I disconnect the power adapter. I also rebooted without the power adaptor. As soon as I plugged the power adaptor in I again got the sleep of death. Another thing I did was change all of the Gnome settings so that it would suspend everything to disk rather than ram. But this did not really make much difference other than it took longer to sleep into death. Sometimes when I hit the power button briefly in an effort to resume, I will see activity on the hard disk and I nearly always remember the cpu changing from 800 to 1.6 Ghz. My laptop computer is from China. I bought it in June 2006 from Fry's with a 5 year replacement guarantee. But Fry's makes excuses instead of honoring their $199 extended warranty. It is an AMD Turion 64 with ATI graphics and Rt2500pci wifi. It may have been made from the same place that made Compaq. The female plug accepting the power adapter is worn out so it switches from power to battery with every breath on or movement of the power cord. This caused the last half of my UDS-L session to be without a computer since I was running Gnome because I really dislike every package having to be something new and special that must begin with the letter K instead of using what was proven many years ago and continually improved since them. Any help you give will be appreciated and with proper communications will likely help many in the third world who cannot buy a new laptop every 2 or 3 years. -- 9.10 goes into a sleep of death whenever power switches to battery. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/485910 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
