linux-kernel - Re: [Suspend2-devel] Reboot problem

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Date:	Wed, 2 Jan 2008 14:09:03 +0100
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Christian Hesse <mail@...thworm.de>
Cc:	nigel@...el.suspend2.net, suspend2-devel@...ts.tuxonice.net,
	"The place to get help!" <suspend2-users@...ts.tuxonice.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Suspend2-devel] Reboot problem

On Wednesday, 2 of January 2008, Christian Hesse wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 January 2008, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > Hi Christian.
> >
> > Christian Hesse wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 01 January 2008, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > >> Third, regarding the patch itself, I'm taking my time in working towards
> > >> the 3.0 release. We don't have any major bugs with 3.0-rc3 reported
> > >> [...].
> > >
> > > Well, I think I still have a bug, though it is possibly a mainline
> > > problem and it's not a showstopper. After a suspend/resume cycle the
> > > reboot does not work. The system hangs with "Rebooting system" (or
> > > similar). After that you have to hard reset the system, which is not
> > > really a problem as filesystems have been unmounted before. Reboot
> > > without a suspend cycle before and halt with and without suspend cycle
> > > work without problems.
> >
> > Just to clarify, do you mean rebooting after writing an image, or
> > shutting down and rebooting? It could be that there's some change to the
> > semantics in 2.6.24 that I haven't noticed yet.
> 
> I speak about shutting down and rebooting. I have not used reboot after 
> writing an image for a long time now. Will test what happens in this case.
> 
> I had the issue before 2.6.24(-rc) already, thought I don't know whether there 
> were times it worked. I use it way too seldom.

Well, this is similar to http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6655 ,
which definitely is a mainline problem (still pending).

Greetings,
Rafael\
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