17th January 2017, 11:38
(17th January 2017, 10:41)rocky7x Wrote: Hello kdemeoz,
From my point of view, these things with suspend/resume happen. My experience tells me that suspend/resume is never 100% safe and I'm not saying it's just on Linux, but on any OS in general. My friend used suspend/resume with windows until one nice day it got stuck in a similar way as yours and upon reboot he was greeted with a blue screen :-) Only a special Windows repair disc helped. OSX is similar, 99 times it will work, that 1 time will get stuck. It happens to me as well and I know I cannot rely on it 100%, so for example when putting the system into suspend I save all my work. The reasons for that can be really prosaic: for example, during the night the electric grid might get unstable and send pulses to your lappy, that may or may not be filtered out by the adapter. There can be solar flares from the sun - I had all sorts of problems when they were reported. So, from my perspective, never trust suspend 100% and while it may work 99 times, that 1 time it will fail, no matter which OS you put on it and the root cause doesn't have to be in the device or OS itself.
Cheers... ;-)
Hi Rocky
Many thanks! That's actually quite heartening, & rather reassuring... which of course was your kind intention. OK, on that basis i shall stop my moaning & close this brief post.
BTW, as a well-honed pessimist who doesn't even realise that there is another half of the glass actually containing any liquid [unsubstantiated rumour, IMO], my default state is to expect stuff to break / fail / let me down, so it's always amazing when i get thru' another day sans-catastrophe ;-) As such, like you my final act every time before Suspending either Tower or Lappy [both running Maui nowadays] is to ensure that i have saved any new changes in any open docs or relevant applications. Thing is, overall my cumulative Maui Suspend-Resume experience to date has been that it's soooooooo much more reliable than my old Mint 17.x KDE4 was, such that when Maui does suffer a solar flare, it quite shocks me :-)