Description of problem: The System->Shutdown->Hibernate feature does not work. The screen goes black showing nothing but a blinking cursor, then the login prompt reappears. Logging back in shows my original desktop. How reproducible: Everytime. Steps to Reproduce: 1. In Gnome, click System->Shutdown->Hibernate Actual results: Computer should persist memory to disk then shutdown. Expected results: User just gets a black screen, then bounced back to their desktop. Additional info: # uname -r 2.6.23.9-85.fc8
Created attachment 292575 [details] Output of dmesg > dmesg.out right after attempt to hibernate.
Not a gnome-power-manager problem. Please see http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/ for a possible fix.
This is an immensely rude and frustrating reply. Is this what Fedora's been reduced to? Pressing "hibernate" doesn't hibernate and that's not a bug?! This is a problem in every release since GPM became standard, and hibernation has rarely, if ever worked, and replies like these aren't helping. If it's not a GPM problem, then it's certainly a problem somewhere. I've reviewed that hal-quirks site, and it doesn't address hibernation problems at all.
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