Suspend Issue

[NDog]

I'm running F7 on a Thinkpad X40. Everything seems to work great, I got the wireless connection working via networkmanager and haven't had an issue yet, until now...

Whenever I try to suspend/hibernate/shutdown, the system always seems to have issues.

During shutdown, it tries to shutdown networkmanager and displays 'failed' and then hangs. It seems like it gets stuck waiting for networkmanager to shutdown but it won't. The only way to recover is to power down by holding the power button.

Whenever doing a suspend/hibernate the system attempts to, then the screen flashes and there is a brief message about could not suspend and it brings me back to the password screen.

Has anyone else had this problem? Does it sound like a networkmanager problem? Or is something else conflicting? Any help would be much appreciated.

[NDog]

An update to the newest kernel (2.6.21-1.3228) seems to have fixed the problem!

[handy]

May I ask you how you did that? I see there is a new kernel out but when I want to install it it nags about an dependency which indeed is missing. The dep is: mkinitrd >= 6.0.9-7.1

[NDog]

su -
yum update

Are you trying to compile your own kernel? I just grabbed the newest kernel via yum. That should take care of any dependencies.

Good luck!

[segfault]

Originally Posted by NDog

su -
yum update

Are you trying to compile your own kernel? I just grabbed the newest kernel via yum. That should take care of any dependencies.

Good luck!

There is currently a bug related to yum that will allow the kernel to be updated even with a failed dependency if (and only if) there is more than one old kernel installed.

There is a second bug that will allow a kernel to be pushed upstream with missing dependencies.

The current kernel update does in fact have a failed dependency (mkinitrd >= 6.0.9-7.1) which should make the update fail with a dependency issue.

Therefore, some people (who had more than 1 old kernel installed) are able to update to the new kernel, but most others (with only 1 old kernel installed) will fail to update the new kernel.

Cheers,
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[QuantumKnot]

You need to enable the updates-testing repository to get the missing dependency (mkinitrd).

[segfault]

Originally Posted by QuantumKnot

You need to enable the updates-testing repository to get the missing dependency (mkinitrd).

Yes that would work, but I'm not sure enabling a testing repository is a good idea.