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On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 05:53:08PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote |
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> One of the last few items on the laptop setup. I emerged hibernate |
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> and copied over the /etc/hibernate/ directory from my desktop. When I |
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> try to hibernate the laptop, I get... |
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> [thimk][root][~] hibernate |
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> /bin/echo: write error: No such device |
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> ...with a beep, and the machine comes back. |
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PEBKAC++. Multiple facepalm. I outdid myself here. I got lazy on |
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the laptop install by copying config files from another machine... and |
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it came back to bite me. Here was my /etc/fstab ... |
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/dev/sda1 /boot vfat defaults,noatime 1 2 |
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/dev/sda2 / ext3 noatime,nodiratime,async,user_xattr 0 1 |
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/dev/sda3 none swap sw 0 0 |
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...but, but, but... this is a used Lenovo laptop, too old for UEFI, with |
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only 75 gigs of disk and I've only got two partitions on it. I |
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corrected fstab to the proper... |
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/dev/sda1 / ext3 noatime,nodiratime,async,user_xattr 0 1 |
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/dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0 |
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I'm surprised that LILO booted at all with the bad fstab. There were |
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only some error message lines that scrolled by really fast at bootup. |
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Otherwise a perfectly normal bootup. I finally got around to stopping |
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the laptop in mid-bootup tonight, and looking at the error message. |
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Something about fsck.ext3 not finding a magic superblock on /dev/sda2. |
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This prompted me to dig through the system and find the problem. |
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And, oh yeah, hibernate now works with one quirk. I assume hibernate |
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was reading the swap partition name from /etc/fstab for hibernation. Of |
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course it got "write error: No such device" when trying to save to a |
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non-existant swap partition /dev/sda3. The one quirk is that bootup |
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comes from the first menu item in LILO, unless I manually over-ride. I |
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can parse the boot image name from /proc/cmdline and feed it into "lilo -R". |
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Then I'll have to insert it into the hibernate shutdown scripts. |
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-- |
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I've seen things, you people wouldn't believe; Gopher, Netscape with |
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frames, the first Browser Wars. Searching for pages with AltaVista, |
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pop-up windows self-replicating, trying to uninstall RealPlayer. All |
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those moments, will be lost in time like tears in rain... time to die. |
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