[ubuntu-za] Suspend/Resume issues on Jaunty

[David Rubin]

On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Josh Brodrick <josholikestofly at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks so much for all your advice everyone!
>
> Yes i also thought it might be the nVidia graphics, but the fact that the
> display comes on after suspend lead me to believe they were working ok. I
> could be wrong!
>
> How do I go about checking my system logs if the computer is frozen? I
> agree  it would be a good place to look. Can i check them after i reboot?
> (Sorry i dont really know much about the log files)
>
> Just to note I never hibernate my desktop -  I only tried it to see if it
> would work when suspend did not. My goal is to get suspend working :)
> Also my swap is more than 2times my ram size (16GB) so i doubt thats a
> problem :)
Don't apologise for not knowing if you don't ask you will  never learn
see  [1].

You can alway try to get into a console by pressing ctrl+alt+f1 this
will how ever take you to a completely text based terminal with no
GUI.  If you can get to a console then your system isn't frozen but
rather your GUI. Once at the terminal you can try restarting your
Desktop Enviroment by typing  "sudo inovoke-rc.d gdm restart" this
will restart gnome and you will loose any open applications but might
help to ping point the issue.

Some thing else you could look at is the log files in /var/log/ syslog
and dmesg might also want to check kernel  You can view the last 100
lines by doing
sudo tail -n 100 /var/log/syslog | less  the piping into into less
will allow you to scroll up and down. replace the log location with
which ever log you want to view.

Something you could defiantly look at after rebooting your machine is
in gnome there is a graphical logviewer under System -> Administration
-> Log viewer. Generally most people would look for things that
contain error fail warning or any thing that just doesn't seem right.

If you notice any specific error messages put them into the big google
and see if any thing comes up if not post them to the list and some
one might actually understand them :)

[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LinuxLogFiles

David