Description of problem: I have a dual monitor setup via a ThinkPad docking station for my X61 laptop. After pressing the "prepare to release" button on the docking station, and then hitting suspend causes the crescent shaped suspend light to continue blinking. I have waited for about two minutes but the laptop does not suspend and the light keeps on blinking. Suspending under normal conditions is really fast and quick in FC13. This use-case used to work in Fedora 12, but does not anymore. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Press button to prepare laptop for release from docking station 2. Hit Fn-suspend Actual results: Suspend light keeps blinking but laptop does not suspend. Expected results: Light stops blinking and laptop suspends. Additional info: This may or may not be useful: there is an error (existed in FC12 as well) where if I release my X61 laptop from the docking station, the notification area displays an error similar to "Cannot switch Monitor configuration CRTC 63". In FC12, suspend would not work after I got that error. However, it would work after pressing the prepare to release button and before actually releasing the laptop.
Hi, is the issue reproducible only in combination with docking station? Does it work fine outside docking station?
Hi and thanks so much for responding. I checked, and it looks like the problem only occurs when the laptop is on the dock. In fact, after disconnecting the external monitor from the laptop to restore my dock setup, and then docking my laptop back gave me a blank screen on both monitors. Only the mouse pointer was there and I could move it, but nothing else. Only thing I could do is go to another terminal (ctrl + alt + f1) and then kill the XOrg server.
I use ThinkPad T61. The system frozen trying to undock my laptop. I've fixed it disabling docking station in bios. Try to check for your bios setup.
Which kernel version do you have?
I checked my bios settings but did not see anything regarding a docking station. Am I looking for the correct field? My kernel version is: 2.6.33.5-112.fc13.i686.PAE #1 SMP
I suppose this is kernel issue...
This also happens to me with a thinkpad R61 (a couple of years old) and a docking station: - If you try to undock the laptop, will freeze - If you try to change the output device (Fn + F7 in my case), will freeze. This used to cycle between laptop screen, external screen, both. - Closing the lid while docked will freeze it. This used make the external display the main display - If the laptop is not docked, these symptoms are not present, but I can dig further if needed. I checked the xorg and messages logs but no meaningful messages are there... it would seem as if the system completely locks up.
There are many things that can cause acpi-related problems. One easy thing to try would be to kill acpid: sudo killall acpid Now try your various keys and see if they work. If so (or if the system no longer hangs), then it is very likely that acpid was the problem. We did have a problem at one point with acpid going into an endless loop for certain keypresses due to the contents of some config files. While this sounds similar, I think it may have been a Debian problem. acpi events (roughly) follow a path through the following: 1. hardware 2. BIOS 3. kernel/drivers 4. acpid 5. window manager There are other steps in there too, like dbus, but those are the biggies. Two more ideas: First, try running without X and your window manager. Do the symptoms change? Second, try the "kacpimon" utility that comes with the acpid source. This will show you what acpi messages are coming from the kernel. Are you getting the expected messages?
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 14 development cycle. Changing version to '14'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Similar issue for Thinkpad T500 and Fedora 13. * Booting and suspending outside of docking station works fine. * Booting and suspending inside docking station works fine. * Booting inside docking station, undocking and then suspending makes the suspend light blink indefinitely and laptop is frozen. * Booting inside docking station, undocking, docking again and then suspending makes the suspend light blink indefinitely and laptop is frozen. However, I have a feeling that not every time this holds for 100%. But usually it "works" this way.
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I think this could be related to NFS. Since the time I disabled NFS mounts on my machine I get this problem really rarely (but still happens sometimes nevertheless). Fedora 14
There is ongoing work to improve NFS/suspend interaction. This isn't going to get fixed in F14. Akshay, can you confirm whether you were also using NFS ?
No update in 4 months. Also there were fixes for NFS and CIFS for suspend/resume that went into later kernels. If you are still having issues with the 2.6.42.7 or newer kernel, please open a new bug with relevant details.
I could not reproduce this on Fedora 16 while using autofs (NFS directories opened in Nautilus) and docking station. It seems fixed.