I recently got a new laptop (Thinkpad X230). I didn't really have time to do a fresh install so I copied my install (xubuntu 12.04) over from my old machine (Thinkpad X61). Now when I try to hibernate it seems to do the Hibernate step fine, but doesn't seem to try and resume when booting back up. It just does a fresh boot. Is there something I need to do so the system knows where to look for the hibernation data?
/var/log/boot.log: http://paste.ubuntu.com/1056101/
Thanks to the pointer to /var/log/boot.log, I noticed the line
swapon: /dev/sda5: software suspend data detected. Rewriting the swap signature.
Some googling around that lead me to bug 499940, which gave me the name of the file that controls where to look for the resume data, /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume. This file still had my old swap partition UUID in it. Updating that info and running sudo update-initramfs -u solved the issue and hibernate now works.
I was wondering if there was an official way to update this file/data and found a Debian bug (#565225) around the issue, but it has no resolution. Hand editing /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume seems to be the only solution other than perhaps something involving adding/removing the initramfs-tools package, since the file is created by the postinstall hooks.
dmesg, file/var/log/boot.log– ish Jun 22 '12 at 07:03