Bug 220385 - pm-hibernate fails with "Cannot allocate memory"
Summary: pm-hibernate fails with "Cannot allocate memory"
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 6
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nigel Cunningham
QA Contact: Brian Brock
URL:
Whiteboard: bzcl34nup
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-12-20 21:33 UTC by Carl Roth
Modified: 2008-05-06 17:13 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2008-05-06 17:13:06 UTC
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Kernel dmesg output (36.83 KB, text/plain)
2007-07-20 03:21 UTC, Carl Roth
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Description Carl Roth 2006-12-20 21:33:57 UTC
Description of problem:

When I use 'pm-hibernate', the system does not hibernate.  It goes through the
motions, but never writes its state to swap, and returns to the calling shell with

  /etc/pm/functions: line 196: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Using pm-utils-0.19-3

How reproducible:

Most of the time.  I've been able to get pm-hibernate to work intermittently,
but never twice in a row.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot system to runlevel 5
2. Type 'pm-hibernate'
3.
  
Actual results:

System returns after a short pause with an error message.

Expected results:

System should suspend and resume.

Additional info:

Here's a grab-bag of system details:

  * dual-core 2GHz P4 (hyperthreading, EM64T)
  * Intel 955 mobo (D955KBK)
  * ATI radeon X1800 video card (using ati-fglrx from livna.org)
  * 1GiB of RAM, 3GiB of swap
  * /etc/pm/config as follows (two sound devices to disable on suspend)

      SUSPEND_MODULES="button snd_hda_intel snd_usb_audio"
      HIBERNATE_RESUME_POST_VIDEO="no"

Comment 1 Phil Knirsch 2006-12-21 11:24:23 UTC
Are you using a Xen kernel by any chance? If yes, please try it with a normal
kernel instead and see if you get the same problem.

Read ya, Phil

Comment 2 Carl Roth 2006-12-21 16:17:59 UTC
Linux huggy 2.6.18-1.2868.fc6 #1 SMP Fri Dec 15 17:29:48 EST 2006 x86_64 x86_64
x86_64 GNU/Linux

This is a stock x86_64 kernel from Fedora updates.  I'm not using Xen.


Comment 3 Phil Knirsch 2006-12-21 16:22:03 UTC
Ah, yea. 64bit kernels are also know to still have problems doing proper suspend
or hibernate in many cases.

Setting it to kernel as this is definitely a kernel problem though.

Read ya, Phil

Comment 4 Nigel Cunningham 2007-06-12 07:01:58 UTC
Are you still seeing this issue? If so, could you please attach dmesg from a
failed attempt? Could you also try a more recent kernel?

Comment 5 Carl Roth 2007-07-20 03:01:11 UTC
I still get this problem with 2.6.20-1.2962.fc6.  I'm attaching a recent dmesg file.

Note that I tried the following hack from

  http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/2/106

# echo $((400*1024*1024)) > /sys/power/image_size

and initial tests indicate that suspend/resume works with this.

As per the message, I don't understand it either.


Comment 6 Carl Roth 2007-07-20 03:21:49 UTC
Created attachment 159629 [details]
Kernel dmesg output

Comment 7 Nigel Cunningham 2007-12-10 22:26:17 UTC
Is this better with newer kernels? I haven't checked, but Rafael has probably
merged that patch into vanilla if it helped (or made other fixes).

Comment 8 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 05:18:53 UTC
Fedora apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We're
sorry it's taken so long for your bug to be properly triaged and acted
on. We appreciate the time you took to report this issue and want to
make sure no important bugs slip through the cracks.

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Comment 9 Bug Zapper 2008-05-06 17:13:05 UTC
This bug is open for a Fedora version that is no longer maintained and
will not be fixed by Fedora. Therefore we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of
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Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.


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