Pc not waking up after Kunbuntu add/remove

[Adam Petty]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 6:57 AM, Werner Schram <wrschram at gmail.com> wrote:
> Adam Petty wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Adam Petty <linux at papettys.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 3:22 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 12/20/2009 06:00 AM, Steve wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:51:25 -0000, Adam Petty <linux at papettys.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Steve <yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:28:27 -0000, Adam Petty <linux at papettys.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I just googled for simmilar log messages. It looks like what you just
>>>>>>>>> posted is the end of a stack trace of a 'page allocation failure'
>>>>>>>>> message. Which is likely related to the absence of your swap, and
>>>>>>>>> could
>>>>>>>>> be the cause of your suspend problems.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Werner
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> After seeing that, I created a swap file and it still locked up over
>>>>>>>> night
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is that a swap file or swap partition, is it bigger then RAM size.
>>>>>>> There’s been discussion on here before about suspend and swap files, I
>>>>>>> believe you can’t suspend to a swap file.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Steve
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Its a swap file about half the size of the RAM installed. It locked up
>>>>>> before I created the swap file
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> The swap file/partition needs to be bigger than RAM size.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> These might be of help:
>>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq
>>>> <quote>
>>>> Hibernation (suspend-to-disk) The hibernation feature (suspend-to-disk)
>>>> writes out the contents of RAM to the swap partition before turning off
>>>> the machine. Therefore, your swap partition should be at least as big as
>>>> your RAM size. The hibernation implementation currently used in Ubuntu,
>>>> swsusp, needs a swap or suspend partition. It cannot use a swap file on
>>>> an active file system.
>>>> </quote>
>>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Partitioning/Swap
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I'll try adding a swap partition. I have the room. Its just this did
>>> not happen before Kubuntu install
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I created the Partition, I then set the power management to sleep
>> after 2 hours. It was not set to sleep at all, so I am not sure what
>> it was doing. It just turned the monitor off and locked up eventually
>>
>> When I got up this morning, the pc was "sleeping" I hit the power
>> button and it came right up. So I guess this is resolved. Thanx for
>> all the help
>>
>>
> That is good to hear. I am still currious though to whatever hapened to
> your original swap partition. Didn't it get created during your initial
> installation, or did it get removed during your switch?
>
> Note that the next time you want to switch desktop environments, you
> could just use the commands:
>
> sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
> sudo service gdm stop && sudo service kdm start
> sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-desktiop
> sudo apt-get autoremove
>
> The method you noted in your earlier mail from
> http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/puregnome will probably work, but the
> above method will make sure you don't remove software that is currently
> running, it will work for every version of ubuntu and it will not remove
> any gnome packages which you specifically installed yourself. Just
> switch kubuntu-desktop/kdm and ubuntu-desktop/gdm if you want to do it
> the other way around.
>
> Werner
>

I dont remember if it created one or not. I went with the defaults. I
changed some settings but nothing with the swap file

I'll keep those commands around for next time I decide to try KDE. Thanx