LM 17: cold boot instead of resume from hibernate

[phr33k]

Linuxmint 17 Cinnamon 32 bit
Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop
2GB RAM
3GB Swap ACTIVE (3GB of swap worked for me on Linuxmint for years)

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$ sudo blkid
[sudo] password for myusername:
/dev/sda1: LABEL="RSTUVWXYZ" UUID="385461C654618788" TYPE="ntfs" 
/dev/sda2: UUID="4359d35f-7cb9-4543-9304-22e5311844d1" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sda3: UUID="aa7eed1b-64e8-471a-b550-5ec8b844fef3" TYPE="swap"

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$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=4359d35f-7cb9-4543-9304-22e5311844d1 /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# swap was on /dev/sda3 during installation
UUID=aa7eed1b-64e8-471a-b550-5ec8b844fef3 none            swap    sw              0       0

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$ sudo cat /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/com.ubuntu.enable-hibernate.pkla
[Re-enable hibernate by default]
Identity=unix-user:*
Action=org.freedesktop.upower.hibernate
ResultActive=yes

[Re-enable hibernate by default in logind]
Identity=unix-user:* 
Action=org.freedesktop.login1.hibernate
ResultActive=yes

I've been using Linuxmint Cinnamon since version 12. Although I've sometimes had to wrestle with hibernate in the past, LM 17 is presenting me with the worst nightmare yet.

My laptop seems to go into hibernation OK, but always cold boots instead of resuming from hibernate when I power it back up. I tried installing uswsusp, which has saved my hibernate bacon in the past. With uswsusp installed, s2disk counts up to 100% of memory saved and then my laptop turns off, but if I try to resume from hibernate on LM 17, my laptop just hangs with the LM logo on a black screen. I then have to run fsck on my LM partition from a frugal-installed Puppy on my NTFS partition. Hence I've uninstalled uswsusp.

I used LM 14 Cinnamon for a long time and was very sorry to see support for it end. I am trying to like LM 17, but I'm spending all my time chasing down problems rather than using it. Progress, so called.

[jslive1]

Hi. It's possible that your tone is turning people off from replying.

In any case, I have this issue, also on a Dell laptop. Dell 6510. Otherwise the issue is very similar as described.

Bump! Anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks

[jslive1]

I found a soltuion, which was to install the binary NVIDIA driver. I have a

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218M [NVS 3100M] (rev a2)

MintMenu->Driver Manager->Select the Nvidia binary driver "nvidia-331" version 331.38-0ubuntu7

That seemed to work. Suspend and Hibernate now work correctly.