I have never had a problem with Ubuntu and hibernating my laptop (not a netbook though) First version of Ubuntu on my laptop was probably 9.04 or maybe 9.10 I think it is currently running 10.10 or maybe 11.04... as I am dreading the catastrophic desktop change. On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 03:47 -0500, Mike Miller wrote: > Just thought I should resend with the right subject line... > > > On Thu, 10 May 2012, Mike Miller wrote: > > > (1) Hibernate. Just did it, it works, it used to die and require > > reboot. Suspend always worked and still does. > > There was an additional annoyance: 12.04 doesn't have hibernate available > in menus by default. To run the hibernate process I had to launch > pm-hibernate from the command line like so: > > sudo pm-hibernate > > I did that, it worked and everything came back on restart, but I didn't > have to enter a password. > > I want the usual shutdown/suspend menus to include "hibernate" as an > option, so I googled a bit and found this: > > http://askubuntu.com/questions/94754/how-to-enable-hibernation-in-12-04 > > The instruction there is to place this text... > > [Re-enable hibernate by default] > Identity=unix-user:* > Action=org.freedesktop.upower.hibernate > ResultActive=yes > > ...into this file: > > /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/com.ubuntu.enable-hibernate.pkla > > > I did that, restarted, the menus then had "hibernate" as an option (both > the menu in the upper right of the Unity desktop and the one that appers > when I press the power button). > > I tested the hibernate menu option. It worked. When Ubuntu came back it > made me log in to get back to my open windows, which is the correct > behavior, I would say, but I guess pm-hibernate doesn't do that (I tried > it again and the behavior was the same). > > Hibernate is a killer feature with this laptop because it his great > battery life. It can suspend for days, but it can hibernate a lot longer. > It comes back pretty quickly from hibernation, so I'm setting it to > hibernate when I close the lid: > > (1) click the battery icon on the upper bar > (2) choose power settings > (3) set them how you want them > > For me, I chose "Hibernate" both for "When power is critically low" and > "When the lid is closed." I also tested it by closing the lid, it > hibernated and came back up (with password screen). > > So far, so good. > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120510/464cac1f/attachment.html>