Hello everyone,

I am running Arch with fluxbox and have run into some trouble when tryin to suspend/hibernate computer. I followed the arch wiki to set-up pm-utils (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pm-utils). I included the recover=[swap drive] in my grub configuration. Whenever, I run either pm-hibernate or pm-suspend, however, I am greeted with less than kind messages on reboot.

Somethins is going wrong when the disk is suspending and the filesystem is not liking it. Does anyone know what may be causing this and have any suggestions on what to do?

Thank you very much.

Are those other functioning systems Reiser as well? I suspect not and that would be the (probable) cause. Reiser development is defunct for all I know and Hans Reiser had issues with the kernel maintainers over his file system implementation.

You might try to copy your Reiser data to an other partition with a different file system and disable Reiser in /etc/fstab for the next reboot to see whether the problem is gone.

Thank you for your response. I used ReseirFS after it was suggested in the ARCH install for the /var partition due to its ability to handle small files well. The current setup of my partition is /boot, /, /home, /usr, /tmp all using ext3; /var using reiserfs; and swap. Would you suggest that I switch /var to something like ext4 or JFS since you seem to be right that development has switched to reiser4?

I'd suggest you test it just as I already suggested in my first post. As I understand the situation, it is not really clear that the ReiserFS is the true cause, it's just probably so. Insofar it doesn't really matter what FS you use, though I'd personally prefer ext4. AFAIK Reiser4 is not truly in development as Hans Reiser is serving a sentence in jail.

Hi JZL240I-U,

Sorry I am responding about a week late. I have been extremely busy with schoolwork. I am rather new to linux (only about 2 months on ubuntu to learn basics, before going to arch). I have chosen a more difficult distro to push myself and learn quicker. But I unfortunately don't have any experience with what you are asking me to do. /dev/sda6 (reiserfs) holds my /var folder (which includes the files for pacman). Where should I move this and how would I disable it in fstab (am I supposed to just move it inside of another partition (for example, /tmp)? Thanks for your understanding as I am still learning.

Edit: As an aside, I asked this on the arch forums, where I did not receive any reponses from people who knew what was going on. One person did say that he had the same setup (with all ext3 and reiserfs for /var) and pm-suspend was working correctly for him. The arch installation guide suggests that /var be reiserfs since it is good at handling small file, which is what all the pacman (package manager) files are. This obviously doesn't mean that reiserfs may not be the source of my issues, but interesting to note nontheless.

have you got resume in your hooks (mkinitcpio.conf). If not create a boot image with that.

Sorry to answer late, have been out of town myself, too.

So: What I suggest depends a little from your machine. a) If you have a free partition format it with e.g. ext4 and copy over the entire contents of /var or, alternatively b) copy /var to your / (that is your file system "root").

Depending on those first steps open your /etc/fstab in your favourite editor. If a) copy the line with and change the partition name and file system type as needed. If b) just comment the line like this: HTH.