swsusp: Suspend partition has wrong signature?

tskears · 04-20-2006, 08:17 PM

This error message goes whizzing by everytime I boot Suse 10.0, and I finally decided to do some follow-up. So...

I searched the Suse forum and the message popped up a couple of times, but out of context. So I Googled around a bit and found this (lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/23/10):

>> - printk(KERN_ERR "swsusp: Suspend partition has wrong signature?\n");
>> + printk(KERN_ERR "swsusp: Suspend partition is no suspend image.\n");
>
> Hrm, I don't think it is a good message... What about "Suspend
> partition has no suspend image" or, better yet, "Suspend partition
> does not contain valid suspend image"?

the shorter, the better IMO but i do not really care to be honest.
It should just express that this usually is no error, so "wrong
signature" and maybe "not valid image" may scare the users. "has no
suspend image" sounds 'mostly harmless', so it may be best.
which sort of implies it isn't an error at all.

So... is it an error? Or is it just put there to keep us newbies on our toes ;-)

Any thoughts anyone?
Thanks,
Timothy.

P.S. My Dell D610 seems to suspend just fine, even though it throws up a whole slew of messages about various bit and pieces not being supported by ACPI.

seelenbild28 · 04-21-2006, 02:08 PM

this is not an error, it is only a warning, since suse is searching for suspend data in a image file. if you are not booting after you did suspend your pc or laptop it is clear that suse does not find any suspend data since there is no one.

I'mabadger · 05-18-2006, 05:56 PM

Hi,
I've just added 512MB RAM to my SUSE 9.3 machine, and with it on boot up it stops at the line swsusp: Suspend partition has wrong signature and without is fine. Any ideas?

tskears · 05-19-2006, 02:33 PM

I have a recollection of reading somewhere that your swap (suspend) partition should be minimum 4/3 the size of your memory.

Have you tried re-sizing your swap partition?

I'mabadger · 05-19-2006, 04:25 PM

Cool, I'm going to implement it -- when I get new ram. The stick (on the advice of a collegue) failed Memtest so at least now we know why it didn't work. I understand that you type the command # make swap after you have inserted new ram -- is this what you're getting at?

Many thanks for taking the time to reply.
God Bless
Jonty