[Novalug] Dell Poweredge SC1420 "Sleep Problem"

[Jon LaBadie]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:34:02AM -0600, Beartooth wrote:
> 
>  	"Your computer failed to suspend. Check the help file for 
> common problems."
> 
>  	"Visit quirk website."
> 
>  	I have no faintest intimation *what* help file might be 
> worth a tinker's dam, of whatever clay.

Suspend is part of "power management".  Using gnome, when I go to
the "System" menu and select "help and support", I can ask to search
for "suspend" and come up with several possibilities.   The first
is a good possibility, "Gnome Power Management Manual: suspend failure".

>  	But the button, which tries to launch a browser, points 
> at http:// people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/ -- which has 
> failed a couple dozen times with at least half a dozen browsers.
> 
>  	What's more, so have all attempts to truncate that URL 
> and navigate from there.

This simple truncation http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient
worked for me.  Hugh Sient still has an presence on freedesktop.org,
including things on Fedora 11&12.  But I don't see anything on "quirk".

>  	Nor do I know more than the spelling of "suspend," 
> "sleep," "hibernate," nor any synonym in a computer sense. The 
> contexts in which I have encountered them have referred to 
> laptops, which I hardly ever use.
> 

Again, part of "Power Management".  Some like to suspend or hibernate
their system when it is inactive.  Compared to power-down, this allows
faster restart and retains their working session.

>  	What the blinking blue blazes is going on here? Nothing 
> short of the reset button ever does much good, and that may have 
> any of several results, unpredictably, afaict. It may bring up 
> the display I had last, or a reboot, or things in between.

Check if your power management settings (System -> Preferences ->
power management) might be suspending under some conditions.

>  	The machine, however, contains stuff I would be glad to 
> save; it's the same one that has failed endlessly to upgrade from 
> F11 to F12, by any means short of a fresh install. I'll start 
> copying things to media tomorrow, if not today ....
> 
> -- 
> Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
> Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.
> 
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