Firefox, Thunderbird, Suspend Resume issues.

[Jaime Davila]

Raghuram Vemuri wrote:
> Hello,
> I have the strangest thing happening on my Dell D800 laptop running Edgy.
> After resuming from a suspended state I find that the Firefox and 
> Thunderbird windows that I had open are gone.  The wireless interface 
> eth1 also goes down.  Now this doesn't always happen.  Every once in a 
> while everything will be fine after a suspend resume cycle.  It does 
> seem though Firefox and Thunderbird crash only when the network 
> connection goes down.  Maybe the two are related?  I don't even know 
> where to begin to try and find a solution.
> 
> Any pointers would be much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Raghu
> 

The scripts that get executed when you suspend and resume are in 
directories /etc/acpi/suspend.d and /etc/acpi/resume.d. Any script you 
put inside those files will get executed at the appropriate time. Part 
of what should be done is bring the network down on suspend, and restart 
it on resume. I'm surprised that those directories don't have the stuff 
you need already, but it's a place to start looking. Maybe the commands 
are there, but are failing for some reason.

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