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Hibernate is not actually hibernating

Asked by mark strawser

I'm having some trouble with hibernate on 9.04 on a Lenovo g530, which used to work just fine. The error I was originally getting was not enough swap, looking into it it appeared that my system was no longer recognizing my 6G swap partition, only seeing 8M of it, most of which were used. I recreated the partition using mkswap and swapon etc (I could go into more detail on this if needed - the upshot is that according to top it is being recognized now). The problem is I still can't hibernate. It appears to go into a normal hibernation but on restart none of my running apps return. I'm can't think of where to check now. Any ideas?

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mark strawser (ottermaton) said : 		#1

Update:

I've since tried turning on the autosave session under System->Preferences->Startup Applications, thinking this would achieve the same effect I was looking for with hibernate (namely, just to have the apps I was running open again the next time I started my system). I didn't care for the behavior of autosave whatsoever - it would plunk all my apps on to one desktop (I like to spread what I use most often over 3 desktops) and moving the apps to the desktops I want them on is more of a PITA than just starting them from scratch.

So I went back to the Startup Applications and unchecked the autosave box but it STILL opens the apps I was running when I FIRST enabled it.

It's a shame because when I first got Ubuntu set up on this system the hibernate function worked perfectly for what I wanted, and now it's turned into this great big mess. Any help GREATLY appreciated. Does anyone even know where/what the file is read when starting that tells the system what apps to start? I've tried looking with no luck. If I knew what the file is I'm pretty sure I could edit it to fix this.

One other thing, I found a post (forget where now) where there was a similar problem and the suggested fix was to rename the .nautilus directory and log out / back in. I tried, didn't help.

mark

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mark strawser (ottermaton) said : 		#2

It figures: just minutes after I posted the 2nd one above a person in IRC - which I'd been hanging out in trying to get an answer for 1.5 hrs - told me how to fix it.

Basically, close all apps, enable the autosave, log out / back in, voila. Still, I don't have the apps I want running when I log in (none at all, actually), but it's better than before.

I'm not marking this solved as my original hibernate problem remains.

mark

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#3

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