Comments on: How to Install Tuxonice in Ubuntu

By: Alessandro

Alessandro — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 06:14:44 +0000

Thanks, really useful using on Ubuntu 11.10.
In my case, i download a bare 3.1 kernel and apply the -pf patchset with TuxOnIce 3.2, After created /suspend file has our TuxOnIce guru Nigel says. It hibernate ok, but on resume i got the error: “Compress_read returned -22″
“Breaking out of I/O loop because of result code -22.”
Fixed it compiling AHCI static in the kernel, with my SATA drivers. It avoids the error:
“TuxOnIce: Can’t translate “UUID=xxxx”
Setting BFQ as default block I/O scheduler, with the lzo module static and at last, put the line:
echo 1 > /sys/power/tuxonice/do_resume
in the file:
/usr/share/initramfs-tools/init
after the lines that mount sysfs and procfs.
Recreate initramfs and adjust grub with resume=UUID=
No userui because i do not install any package, just compiled a new kernel and used the hibernate-script-2.0 from git.
That’s it, once again thanks !

By: Nigel Cunningham

Nigel Cunningham — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 22:24:37 +0000

The hibernate script will be looking at what’s in /sys/power/tuxonice/resume and /sys/power/tuxonice/file/target. These are in turn set by the following options in /etc/hibernate/tuxonice.conf:

## For filewriter:
# FilewriterLocation /suspend_file 1000
# VerifyFilewriterResume2 yes

If I recall correctly, you should only need to uncomment the FilewriterLocation entry, but I’m not sure I do.

Anyway, the way to ensure your resume= is correct is (as root):

echo /path/to/filewriter/file > /sys/power/tuxonice/file/target
cat /sys/power/tuxonice/resume

If that still doesn’t get you going, please email the TuxOnIce users list - we have a good number of people there who’ll be able to help.

Nigel

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 14:19:29 +0000

I’m wondering if you (or anyone else) has successfully got the FileWriter option working? I am getting this error on running hibernate:

ABORTING: resume is not setup correctly. Unless you have setup your bootloader correctly, resuming will most likely fail. To correct this, add “resume=UUID=3ae642dce2cb484f8f66912137190eb6:0×658000″ to your kernel command line in your LILO or GRUB configuration file and reboot.
hibernate: Aborting.

Of course, I’ve added the specified string to /boot/grub/menu.lst, but after rebooting, I get the same message. Any ideas?

Thanks!

By: neo

neo — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:15:17 +0000

I’ve also just installed those packages as Donnie’s said from https://launchpad.net/~tuxonice/+archive/ppa and everything’s working, thanks!

By: Donnie

Donnie — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 23:34:47 +0000

I am trying this in Meerkat. Do i need to change configuration for better experience? So far i have installed tuxonice-userui linux-generic-tuxonice linux-headers-generic-tuxonice from ppa:tuxonice/ppa and its working great.

By: MTS

MTS — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 23:53:58 +0000

Thanks for this howto!

By: Nigel Cunningham

Nigel Cunningham — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 02:53:37 +0000

coff_coff, you’ll be please to know I’ve just made the git tree for it. I try not to jump in too early, because they keep rebasing the kernel (or have done so in the past), which makes it a pain to track. There should be PPAs available within a day or two.

By: coff_coff

coff_coff — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:55:01 +0000

please add repo for Lucid Lynx

By: Daddy61

Daddy61 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:11:46 +0000

Just i would like to ask from where i have to start to answer this question. ,

By: Younes

Younes — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:40:14 +0000

This how to helped me to setup the tuxonice but it took me 2 days of trouble. I would like to first thank the author and suggest him to put more description on the grub part for example mention to run the update grub at the final stage and put a menu.lst sample.

By: Volatile

Volatile — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:16:31 +0000

Other improveable things I noticed while following this tutorial:
The direct links to the deb-files are broken.
The test elif [ ! -f ${MODULESDIR}/kernel/power/tuxonice_userui.ko ] won’t succeed for me eventhough I use the tuxonice-patched kernels. Ignoring this test, I now have a hibernateable system, albeit maybe only non-graphically. Is there a reason for making this test here?
Anyways, I now have a hibernateable system, and am moving on to the next step of patching my nvidia drivers. Thanks a lot for the tutorial!

By: Volatile

Volatile — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:08:12 +0000

Heh, Guess there is.
Then, I have a task for the author of this thing:
Please put everything that is to be copied into -blocks! Do like this everywhere: Instead of just typing echo "$PREREQ", which generates the as far as sh is concerned illegible echo “$PREREQ”, type echo "$PREREQ", which produces echo "$PREREQ", which is copy pasteable even for the most nooby of the readers. Copy-paste is according to me heavily preferrable over copy-paste-and-edit-everything.



By: Volatile
Volatile — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:01:05 +0000
Isn’t there a  block one can use to get compatible “:s and -:s?

Like so:

echo "this will actually be copy pasteable"




By: alexander
alexander — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:27:09 +0000
/usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/tuxonice_userui: 1: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string
when I do 
update-initramfs -c -k 2.6.28-13-generic



By: intosamadhi
intosamadhi — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:30:42 +0000
try installing directly from the ppa
https://launchpad.net/~tuxonice/+archive/ppa/+files/linux-libc-dev_2.6.28-14.45+tuxonice1_amd64.deb
https://launchpad.net/~tuxonice/+archive/ppa/+files/linux-doc-2.6.28_2.6.28-14.45+tuxonice1_all.deb  (3.5 MiB)
https://launchpad.net/~tuxonice/+archive/ppa/+files/linux-headers-2.6.28-14-generic_2.6.28-14.45+tuxonice1_amd64.deb (684.3 KiB)
https://launchpad.net/~tuxonice/+archive/ppa/+files/linux-headers-2.6.28-14-server_2.6.28-14.45+tuxonice1_amd64.deb (684.3 KiB)
https://launchpad.net/~tuxonice/+archive/ppa/+files/linux-headers-2.6.28-14_2.6.28-14.45+tuxonice1_all.deb (8.5 MiB)
https://launchpad.net/~tuxonice/+archive/ppa/+files/linux-image-2.6.28-14-generic_2.6.28-14.45+tuxonice1_amd64.deb (23.3 MiB)
https://launchpad.net/~tuxonice/+archive/ppa/+files/linux-libc-dev_2.6.28-14.45+tuxonice1_amd64.deb (759.5 KiB)



By: Bula
Bula — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:35:53 +0000
Thanks for the tutorial but I cant even get the package installed I set the sources and imported keys everything works fine, like in every other ppa but in synaptic manager there is no tuxonice (except userui) If it is of any use my kernel is Linux 2.6.28-13-generic #45-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 30 19:49:51 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux



By: jimdandy
jimdandy — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:30:26 +0000
Appreciate the instructions. I haven’t tested this out yet, but there do seem to be some errors in your code as posted. I’m not sure about the gpg instructions, but copy and paste ends up with some characters being wrong. Same with the scripts, where it looks to me like smart quotes got in there that shouldn’t be. I could be totally wrong, but with just copying and pasting, I was getting errors. I made selected changes until I didn’t get errors, so I’ll see how it goes.



By: intosamadhi
intosamadhi — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:49:40 +0000
best try the tuxonice mailing list

http://www.tuxonice.net/lists.html
I’ve never compiled nvidia drivers so cant offer assistance



By: alkamid
alkamid — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:42:19 +0000
Hello,
I’d like to make tuxonice working on my fresh Jaunty install. However, I can’t compile NVIDIA drivers - I always get a prompt that I need the kernel source tree to compile them, but how am I supposed to install source tree for 2.6.28-13? From PPA I can only get sources for 2.6.28-14 and I did it along with installing headers and image of 2.6.28-14 but I keep receiving the prompt!



By: intosamadhi
intosamadhi — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:10:33 +0000
not sure how much simpler I could make this, it is mostly cut and paste stuff. 
Most of the work is already done in the patched kernel from the PPA. The rest is just some simple commands to get initramfs-tools to use tuxonice on resume. 
If there is something specific you would like to know just ask.
I don’t know how tuxonice compares with hibernation in the latest kernels because I have been using it ever since 1 of the kernels refused to let me hibernate or suspend. From my experience with earlier kernels, tuxonice is much faster and also gives you feeback about what it is doing.