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Keeping disk caches when hibernating

Is there a way to keep disk caches when hibernating Linux? I understand and agree that dropping them is the best option all-around. But my system is unresponsive after resume and I would like to give ...
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any utility on centos 6 to sound an alarm when power is low

Is there an application that will set an audible alarm when the battery goes low on a centos 6 IBM 430 machine? Details of the problem here: I have set it hibernate when battery is low. However, it ...
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Linux Mint: Hibernate does not work

I have tried hibernate multiple times on my Linux Mint 14. It does not seem to work. I have added some log which I think may be useful. Can someone help me diagnose the problem? laptop model: I: ...
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Crunchbang hibernate rebooted system?

I installed the latest stable 64bit Crunchbang backport. When I tried to hibernate it last night, it rebooted into the locked state - when I logged back in all my windows/apps were as they were again. ...
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What problem have I caused to eth1 by resetting my ubuntu machine?

I am using ubuntu 10.04 (Bio-linux 6.0). Last night I tried leaving my system in hibernate mode because there appears to be a bug in this version of ubuntu such that if I do a straight shut-down, the ...
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Will suspension or hibernation of OS suspend running programs?

I am running a program in my terminal. BUt I need to suspend or hibernate the OS (Ubuntu 12.04) for a while. Do I have to Ctrl-Z my running program before doing that? Or will suspension or hibernation ...
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Hibernate does not power down laptop

I have an Asus U30J laptop with both windows 7 and Linux Mint 12 installed. When I try to hibernate the laptop, the following message appears on the screen and I have to push the power button to ...
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Removing supend and hibernate privileges

On OpenSUSE 12.1 x86_64, Gnome 3.2 . I want to remove the suspend and hibernate options from the Gnome (Shell) menu as suspend makes no sense IMO for a desktop hibernate has a slight tendency to ...
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How to restore a Fat32 filesystem under Linux

Here is what happened: I used the Laptop and accessed some data on my usb stick. Then I closed the Laptop putting the system into sleep mode. The USB-Stick was still plugged in. After the laptop was ...
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My laptop is not able to recover from suspend and hibernate

I have a acer aspire 5750G laptop. I am running ubuntu 11.04. The uname -a reads the following: Linux admin-Aspire-5750G 2.6.38-13-generic-pae #56-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 14 14:32:30 UTC 2012 ...
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What are the current differences between tuxonice and µswsusp?

I tried to find out what is the current comparation between TOI and µswsusp. Unfortunately I could not find any recent information about the state of hibernation in Linux and how TOI compares to ...
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How do I hibernate my PC when I press the power button

Is there any way to make my PC hibernate when I press the power button? By power button I meant my CPU's power button. Obviously when I press this button somewhere some signal is sent which I don't ...
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How to re-enable hibernate in Kubuntu 11.10?

After making some changes to my swap space, namely deleting and recreating swap space, my Kubuntu 11.10 has lost hibernate functionality. Although the button has returned, hibernating only appears to ...
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If I close the laptop lid the next boot fails

I never shutdown my laptop. I use hibernate instead. Hibernate and suspend are working, but if I close the lid after clicking "Hibernate" the next boot will crash. I see a black screen that never goes ...
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How to hibernate a RHEL6 machine?

I am using RHEL6 and I don't see a hibernate option for it. Doesn't RHEL6 have a hibernate option? I tried pm-hibernate from command line but it said: PM: Cannot find swap device, try swapon -a ...
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Screen corruption after hibernate — Is there another way to refresh the X11 display?

When I restore from hibernate the screen is often corrupted. I suspect the graphics memory is not being saved. Suspend-to-ram works fine. It also looks like the font-cache is corrupted, as all ...
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Hibernate and security considerations

How do Linux and OSX handle sensitive memory pages (e.g. cryptographic keys) when running OS is suspended to disk? If the memory image written is encrypted, how are its keys handled?
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hibernate to disk not restoring, but suspend to ram is working

I have Debian 6, I have also seen this under Ubuntu (can not remember how I fixed it). I can hibernate, but when I switch on the system cold boots (it does not restore previous session). Note ...
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What happens to data in swap when your computer hibernates?

When a computer goes into hibernation mode, it saves the contents of the RAM into the swap space so that it can resume exactly where it left off when it powers back on. So, what if you are currently ...