I hibernated my Jaunty 9.04 last night and now it won't wake up. Firefox 3.5 (and Shiretoko). Nothing I know to do works. I'm a newbie and dumber than a box of rocks. Some solution is given at "Launchpad>Ubuntu>'Linux' package, Bug # 229806," but I have no idea what to do with that information.

Short answer: You'll have to switch it all the way off and reboot.

Do you mean this bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ux/+bug/229806

The first step is: see short answer.
There is nothing you can do from the black screen.

The discussion indicates that the bug arises from the proprietary nvidia driver.
The fix is to edit a couple of text files. But I don't want to guess.

Yes, that's the bug.

[I'm having a hard time just trying to respond to the reply I got. This is my 3rd try.]

I've tried turning it off at the tower; turning it off and unplugging it too; no change. I assume that there's something I can do when it's rebooting (when the screen says it's starting up but before the black screen goes back into place). I'd thought I could always turn it off -- not so.

OK: normally a wake from hibernate looks just like a regular boot, POST, grub stage 1.5 - press (esc) for menu, ubuntu-logo, but it will display a message "waking" instead of the normal boot messages. then appear to hang for a bit. Then you get a password dialog, then the desktop is displayed.

How far do you get?

at the "press esc" message and the password dialog, you have the option of choosing a different boot.

otherwise you will be working from a live CD.

Sorry to take so long getting back with you.

When I got home this morning, I plugged the monitor and tower in and booted. Nothing. Rebooted and hit ctrl+alt+esc. Screen said: Boot from(hd0,0) ext3 ee4da 5b3-c206-4 22c-be2a-dee8fa01b58f Starting up . . .
Loading, please wait . . .
19+0 records in
19+0 records out
I waited a few minutes, nothing; so I pushed esc and still nothing. So turned it off and rebooted. Nothing.
I did that again and nothing. Did it again and that time, pushed the down key and to my surprise, it responded. I'd tried that Sunday morning but the keyboard wouldn't respond. So it was on "Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-14-generic;" I went down one to "Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-14 generic (recovery mode)" and it booted up.

I suppose I need to read as much as I can in all the forums about Jaunty and Firefox and Ubuntu in general. If I'd been doing that before this last fiasco, maybe I'd have known to not hibernate this baby under any circumstances.

Thank you very much for your expertise AND for the speed with which you responded.

You were able to boot in rescue mode - which is what I was trying for.
If you are able to boot from the normal mode after that, fine and dandy.
The instructions in the bug report require you to edit a couple of text files.
If you manage that, you should be able to hibernate OK.

Thanks for the thumbs-up - please edit your profile to show a distro and location - this sort of thing helps others figure better replies.

Enjoy.

Just want to change icon.