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Suspend problems - Chromebook running 12.04.1 LTS

Asked by David Springate

I've been running Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS for a few days now on my Acer C7 Chromebook - and in general it's running great.

However, I've noticed that when I try to suspend one of various things can happen:

Sometimes everything is fine.
Sometimes it doesn't enter suspend and I take my laptop out of my bag to find it roasting hot - not good!.
Sometimes when I open the lid again it performs a complete reboot - losing all my work! Also, not good!.
Basically, it leaves me in a position of uncertainty about closing my laptop without powering it down and saving all my work!

When I click on 'Suspend' (under the top right 'gear/cog' icon in Ubuntu) the laptop correctly enters suspend mode and the orange light starts to pulse.

If I wait a few moments (just to ensure that suspend starts correctly) and then press a keyboard key the suspend light turns blue.. and then off. The laptop has now completely powered down.

It appears it enters suspend okay but then dies when trying to resume.

Can someone please provide me with some help, resources to help or pointers to looking into the problems.

Really need this to work as currently Ubuntu is useless for me as a portable OS without suspend/resume.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

I suggest you report a bug

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Ken Tanzer (ktanzer) said : 		#2

I'm having some similar problems. Sometimes after suspend my computer is very hot as well. It also can run pretty hot when on, but the heat during suspend was much higher.

It's an Acer C710-2847, running 13.04

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