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In Power Management I set "Put computer to sleep for:" to 10 minutes.
When 10 minutes passes I get this error.

Power Manager: Sleep problem
Your computer failed to suspend.
Check the help file for common problems.

Can anyone tell me how to fix this?

Am using Mint 8, Helena
System is an older HP PC
lspci info
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:0a.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
00:0a.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800/K8N800/K8N800A [S3 UniChrome Pro] (rev 01)

One common problem is having an insufficiently sized swap partition. Your swap partition should always be as large as or larger than your amount of ram.

Run each of these commands in terminal and then paste the results here.

llsmith533 wrote:

dawgdoc wrote:One common problem is having an insufficiently sized swap partition. Your swap partition should always be as large as or larger than your amount of ram.

Run each of these commands in terminal and then paste the results here.

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inxi

$ inxi
CPU[-Single core AMD Sempron 2800+ (UP) clocked at 1599.690 Mhz-] Kernel[-2.6.31-14-generic i686-] Up[-2 days-] Mem[-248.5/1223.7MB-] HDD[-100.0GB(3.8% used)-] Procs[-130-] Client[-Shell-] inxi[-1.2.6-]

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inxi -p

inxi -p
Partition: ID:/ size: 5.8G used: 3.6G (65%) fs: ext4 ID:swap-1 size: 0.34GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap

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You may have just identified your problem, the swap partition is only 25% of the size of your ram.

swap-1 size: 0.34GB

Mem[-248.5/1223.7MB-]

I would suggest that you increase the size of your swap partition to at least 1.5Gb (1500Mb), you can not do this working from your hard drive, you will need to boot from a live CD.

Make sure any data you do not want to put at risk is backed up, then, once running from the liveCD, go to --
Menu > Administration > Partition Editor.

remoulder gives a brief guide on resizing partitions.

Thank you
I'll give it a try