[SOLVED] suspend stopped working after unplugging the power while it was still..

[Txacoli]

Hello,

I need help troubleshooting a problem with suspend. Here's what happened. My laptop lid was closed and it went to suspend as usual. Then I accidentally dropped the laptop and later found out the power button wasn't working, but the light was still blinking, indicating it was still in suspend. I couldn't wake up the laptop, so I disconnected the power and took out the battery, and proceeded to dismantle the whole laptop in order to fix the start button. I somehow fixed it and it works now, but the laptop will not suspend anymore, it just locks the screen. The log says everything is ok. While browsing the web for the solution, I read there should be a ".suspended" file somewhere in proc directory, and I should delete it. I found no such file. Any suggestions? I'm using PCLOS 2009.1. I would appreciate any help, thank you.

Cheers!

[kjpetrie]

.suspended would be a hidden file. If using a file manager you need to configure view to show hidden files. If using ls in a terminal you need the -a option - "ls -a".

[Txacoli]

Thank you for the reply. I made sure I was looking for hidden files, but just in case I checked it from terminal as well and I found no such file. Do you have any other idea what I might do to solve this issue? Thank you.

Cheers!

[kjpetrie]

As you lost the suspended state you effectively had an unclean shutdown, so it might be worth running fsck on your partitions, but that's a long shot. I'm not a laptop user so can't really help further.

[Txacoli]

Thanks for the suggestion, I did the disk check, but it didn't solve the problem. If anybody else has a clue, I would appreciate the help. Thank you.

[Txacoli]

Issue is solved.
I did this as root: rm -rf /var/run/pm-utils/locks/
Apparently, it's a very old bug. Everything works great now.

Cheers!