Yet Another Blank Display Issue!

Hello there. I appear to be having a variant of the screen failure problem. However, I am almost certain it's not the GPU failing. Here's my symptoms:
In all other respects, the MBP is completely functional. However, when I shut down and restart it, or close the screen, the display is blank when it powers back up. I think the problem is with the hibernation cycle:
1. The power light remains on when the lid is closed, and the MBP continues to run
2. When the battery is allowed to drain, the power light blinks on and off as though the computer were asleep
3. When it's actually working, the only thing abnormal is the power light, which turns off when the display is on, and on when the display is off (default screensaver thing)
I'm pretty much certain it isn't the NVIDIA problem, because I tried all the fixes up to and including connecting up to another apple and manually deleting the mkext cache and sleepimage file, which eventually worked. However, this proved to be only a temporary solution: as soon as I tried to reset it or let it hibernate, the screen went away and hasn't come back since without this difficult-to-achieve fix (I live near Dundee, and my nearest Apple-owning friend lives in Aylesbury).
One interesting thing I noted (which has convinced me that the problem is caused by a hibernation fault) is that almost immediately upon its deletion, both the mkext cache and the sleepimage file would be recreated, and I was eventually forced into a ridiculous race with the machine to shut it down and restart it normally before it could break itself again.
I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this variation of the problem, or if anyone is aware of the particular bug or fault responsible, and of a more permanent solution, short of never turning it off again.
Thanks.

(I live near Dundee, and my nearest Apple-owning friend lives in Aylesbury).
Perhaps there is an Apple Store or an AASP nearby - http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304398
Also check to see if there are any User Groups in your locale.

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WonderWoofy wrote:@srs5694, have you thought about filing a bug report/feature request about the naming scheme here? I would imagine that something coming directly from the upstream developer would be something that they should take into consideration. Also, I imagine that renaming it to refindx64.efi kind of goes against the whole "vanilla packages" thing we tout around here... so it really makes me wonder why it is done in the first place.
I've just done that:
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[Solved]Yet Another HAL / Mounting issue....

My issue can be avoided by manually mounting a device, just to get that out there.
Whenever I transfer a larger file ( > 200mb) onto a removable USB device formated in either FAT or any non-journaled filesystem, Thunar will *pretend* like its unmounting the device but after about 20 seconds it states:
Failed to unmount "<device name>".
Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply,
the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired,
or the network connection was broken.
On top of the message, my data written is mostly corrupt.
What I know:
** Thunar uses exo-unmount to unmount devices given a HAL uuid. Maybe this is failing? Any clue how to debug this?
** 20-storage-methods.fdi states that all vfat mounted devices have 'flush' and 'async' mount options... could this be an issue?
** I'm part of the 'storage' and 'power' groups.
** i start XFCE using ck-launch-session startxfce4
I've made sure that the device has no other handles and is not open in any window. My system(s) all have new and updated HAL and DBUS, as well as every other package. Running 'sync' after writing the files sometimes fixes the issue. Does anyone have a fix for why removable drives aren't "sending a reply" ? Thanks!
--Anthony
Last edited by anthonyclark (2010-09-22 17:48:13)

Alright ... well. I managed to solve this kind of. As per my last post regarding the same exact issue, I must've missed a reply from Inxsible telling me to use the FIRST suggest UDEV rule from the arch udev wiki.
The result of this is basically...
*Device inserted
*Mounted in /media/<device name> automatically
*(No access via Thunar sidepane since it gets mounted with `mount`)
*No need to manually unmount
*just unplug or power off the device and it gets "lazy" unmounted via `unmount`
Downside:
*Mounting a drive via TrueCrypt creates a directory in /media that doesn't get automatically deleted.
*Not a solution to Thunar having response issues with unmounting.
/etc/udev/rules.d/11-media-by-label-auto-mount.rules
KERNEL!="sd[a-z][0-9]", GOTO="media_by_label_auto_mount_end"
# Import FS infos
IMPORT{program}="/sbin/blkid -o udev -p %N"
# Get a label if present, otherwise specify one
ENV{ID_FS_LABEL}!="", ENV{dir_name}="%E{ID_FS_LABEL}"
ENV{ID_FS_LABEL}=="", ENV{dir_name}="usbhd-%k"
# Global mount options
ACTION=="add", ENV{mount_options}="relatime"
# Filesystem-specific mount options
ACTION=="add", ENV{ID_FS_TYPE}=="vfat|ntfs", ENV{mount_options}="$env{mount_options},utf8,gid=100,umask=002"
# Mount the device
ACTION=="add", RUN+="/bin/mkdir -p /media/%E{dir_name}", RUN+="/bin/mount -o $env{mount_options} /dev/%k /media/%E{dir_name}"
# Clean up after removal
ACTION=="remove", ENV{dir_name}!="", RUN+="/bin/umount -l /media/%E{dir_name}", RUN+="/bin/rmdir /media/%E{dir_name}"
# Exit
LABEL="media_by_label_auto_mount_end"
Last edited by anthonyclark (2010-09-22 03:50:00)

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