Few days ago I’ve blogged on How to workaround (fix) hibernate “PM: Cannot find swap device, try swapon -a†GNOME issues on Debian testing/unstable Linux
In that article I’ve suggested one possible fix to the hibernation issues I experienced with the error;
PM: Cannot find swap device, try swapon -a
Nevertheless just recently I have figure out another better solution to the hibernation issues I’ve experienced
I’ve noticed that for some reason the debian package linux-patch-tuxonice was missing in my current set deb package repository.
deb http://ftp.bg.debian.org/debian/
Changing this repository to deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ and installing the linux-patch-tuxonice package actually solved the issue properly without any need for exchange of the script /usr/sbin/pm-hibernate with /usr/sbin/hibernate as I’ve earlier suggested in my article on how to fix the PM: Cannot find swap device try swapon -a
So the solution to the hibernation issue came out as easily as to installing the linux-patch-tuxonice deb package.
Thus the issues was properly and fully resolved by:
debian:~# apt-get install linux-patch-tuxonice
Now hibernation should start working once agian.
One more issue with the solition I’ve earlier pointed out with exchanging the /usr/sbin/pm-hibernate with the /usr/sbin/hibernate script was that using the hibernate in favour of pm-hibernate cause my system to crash sometimes after a system restore from hibernate.
