Unable to hibernate to disk

I installed and confugured Uswsusp according to the steps given at
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Suspend_to_Disk
When I fire the hibernate command ...it seems that it takes the memory dump on to the swap partition /dev/sda7.
But when I tried to resume it failed, the message displayed on the screen were like:
Invalid resume device swap:/dev/sda7
kinit: No resume Image , trying normal boot
And the normal boot is successful
Then I changed the the resume option in menu.lst to resume=/dev/sda7 instead of resume=swap:/dev/sda7
Now the messages while booting were
kinit: No resume Image , trying normal boot .
And the normal boot is successful.
My etc/suspend.conf is
# major 10, minor 231.
snapshot device = /dev/snapshot
# Set this to whatever your suspend partition is.
# You will not need to provide a resume parameter to your
# kernel when using uswsusp, as this file will be used.
# This neccesitates using a initrd, though!
resume device =/dev/sda7
compress = y
#image size = 350000000
#suspend loglevel = 2
#compute checksum = y
#early writeout = y
# You can only change these if you modified Makefile.diff
# and have the requirements installed.
#splash = y
#encrypt = n
Can smbdy please help ?

What command are you using to hibernate... The uswsusp command is s2disk which needs to be executed as root. IF you're using KDE and Gnome to hibernate, and you just choose an option from the menu, it is possible that some other hibernate command is executed that way, which would produce the symptoms you describe.

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When I run
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I followed all the instructions on the hibernation wiki.
I rebuilt grub adding the swap partition and added the resume hook to mkinitcpio.
My swap partition is 23.4GB and my ram is 16gb, so that shouldn't be an issue.
I've had a look at my xorg logs, run systemctl --all | grep errors with nothing, and nothing came up from the system journal ( I forgot the command as it was deleted from my bash history).
What other logs can I provide to help determine the error?
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It's been solved now, I believe an update to the kernel has done the trick. I can suspend to disk fine now.
For those googling, I'm running 3.11.6-1-ARCH
Last edited by lugubrious (2013-11-13 00:21:27)

Still nothing unfortunately.
I masked alsa90 under /etc/pm/sleep.d to be -x. That was the only file out of the pm directories. (I only have it for KDE too).
I've also double checked my grub config to add resume, and mkinitcpio which has the resume hook.
This is the relevant part of journalctl, this is when I run sudo systemlctl hibernate
Oct 16 15:36:08 arch64 sudo[2228]: lugub : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/lugub ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/systemctl hibernate
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Oct 16 15:36:08 arch64 systemd[1]: Starting Sleep.
Oct 16 15:36:08 arch64 systemd[1]: Reached target Sleep.
Oct 16 15:36:08 arch64 systemd[1]: Starting Hibernate...
Oct 16 15:36:08 arch64 kernel: PM: Hibernation mode set to 'platform'
Oct 16 15:36:08 arch64 systemd-sleep[2231]: Suspending system...
Oct 16 15:36:08 arch64 slim[340]: (II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch
Oct 16 15:36:08 arch64 kernel: PM: Marking nosave pages: [mem 0x00092000-0x000fffff]
Oct 16 15:36:08 arch64 kernel: PM: Marking nosave pages: [mem 0xcfda0000-0xffffffff]
Oct 16 15:36:08 arch64 kernel: PM: Marking nosave pages: [mem 0xc4000000-0xc7ffffff]
Oct 16 15:36:08 arch64 kernel: PM: Basic memory bitmaps created
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Oct 16 15:57:17 arch64 kernel: Freezing remaining freezable tasks ... (elapsed 0.001 seconds) done.
Oct 16 15:57:17 arch64 systemd[1]: Time has been changed
Oct 16 15:57:17 arch64 systemd[446]: Time has been changed
Oct 16 15:57:17 arch64 systemd-sleep[559]: System resumed.
When I ran pm-hibernate as suggested above it didn't suspend either, but this came up on journalctl
Oct 16 14:37:03 arch64 kernel: PM: Cannot find swap device, try swapon -a.
Oct 16 14:37:03 arch64 kernel: PM: Cannot get swap writer
Any ideas? Thanks
Last edited by lugubrious (2013-10-16 03:28:19)

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