How to hibernate Linux Mint LMDE XFCE & GNOME

[on4aa]

I got this great info from http://experiencinglinux.blogspot.com/2011/09/lmde-update.html and
tested it successfully on a Lenovo SL510 notebook running LMDE 64-bit XFCE.

Please, note that you will need a functional swap partition for hibernate to work.
First, make sure that the following packages are installed:

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sudo apt-get install acpi acpi-support acpi-support-base acpi-fakekey acpid acpitool pm-utils powermgmt-base hibernate

For XFCE, you will also need:

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sudo apt-get install xfce4-power-manager xfce4-power-manager-data xfce4-power-manager-plugins

whereas for GNOME, you will need:

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sudo apt-get install gnome-power-manager

Next, take note of the device name /dev/sdx and the UUID of your swap partition:

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cat /etc/fstab

Make sure that RESUME=UUID= is filled out correctly in the following configuration file:

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gksu gedit /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume

Open GRUB's configuration file and write the swap device name
between the quotes following the variable GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="resume=/dev/sdax" where x is the swap partition number

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gksu gedit /etc/default/grub

Finally,

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sudo update-initramfs -u && update-grub

and reboot.
Hibernate should work now. Keep your computing green

[zShell]

Hey man I ran into some problems

First I couldn't get the

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sudo apt-get install acpi acpi-support acpi-support-base acpi-fakekey acpid acpitool pm-utils powermgmt-base hibernate


part, it wouldnt find the repo and when I went and DL it manually it wouldnt install, said there was an error during process

There was nothing in /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/

And after running

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sudo update-initramfs -u && update-grub

I rebooted and got a kernel panic just after selecting Mint in grub (hard freeze with blinking caps lock and scroll lock leds blinking)

It did restart fine the second time, but I'm still unable to hibernate

I got a Dell Vostro with Mint 12 LXDE, what could be the problem

[vincezd]

Thanks a lot !!

[donv]

Just worked great for me on LMDE/Mate 201204, thanks! Only issue was that the combined command line:

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sudo update-initramfs -u && update-grub

did not execute update-grub as root/sudo (error returned), so I had to enter a separate

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sudo update-grub

to complete the action as root. Also, note gedit is now replaced by pluma as the text editor, apparently (at least on my default install).

[bfrancom]

Thanks! This worked nicely for me on LMDE XFCE.
I had to change the UUID to what LVM showed in lvdisplay, and also had to change the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX to my logical volume path.

[luis.nando]

Hello guys, I have a question related to this thread. How to hibernate and suspend in the command line, so I can assign keystrokes in xfce??
thanks

[TarasMK]

Hi all,

I had another configuration without swap partition and with swap file. Some steps would differ in this case and it's described here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1042946
May be someone else will gain from it too

[jjaythomas]

I believe also...

your swap partition need to be => then installed memory (I usually use 1.25 installed memory for swap) I.E. 5MB if 4MB sticks installed

J.Jay

[bigbenaugust]

Hello guys, I have a question related to this thread. How to hibernate and suspend in the command line, so I can assign keystrokes in xfce??
thanks

I do it with: pm-suspend or pm-hibernate.

I set this up on my netbook at home yesterday, but didn't install any other packages other than what came with the LMDE XFCE install... but it seems that I should have ACPI installed.

EDIT: I checked, acpi was part of the default LMDE install on my machines.

Also, pm-suspend and pm-hibernate (symlinks to /usr/lib/pm-utils/bin/pm-action) are world-executable. I'd been running them via sudo all this time. Oops.

[luis.nando]

Hello all,

Is there any way of doing this using mate? I made a new install in my system using btrfs and mate. I followed the tutorial http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=197&t=100659&p=635755&hilit=btrfs+lmde+snapshots#p635755, but after the system was ready I couldn't set the hibernation changing the parameters as suggested in this forum entry. Does someone have any idea of how to solve this case?

My fstab:

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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda1 / btrfs defaults,subvol=@ 0 0
/dev/sda1 /home btrfs defaults,subvol=home 0 0
/dev/sda5   none   swap   sw   0   0


My /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume

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RESUME=/dev/sda5

Best regards,

Luís Fernando

[talora]

It worked perfectly on Linux Mint Debian Edition. Thanks a lot!

[grokenberger]

Now my machine hibernates again. Thanks a lot! This has been bugging me since way too long.