Re: SL-5500 crash on suspend theory

On 4/28/06, Arieh Skliarouk <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have not found any suspend script to make changes to. Are you talking on
> apm binary (when invoked as "apm --suspend")?
>

I believe there are scripts that are called. Try /etc/apm or similar.

> slutils does not provides slbl binary, only sltime.
> Should I file bug on it?
>

Try the slbl package.

>  I am also interested in "buzzme" binary, that slutils can provide.
>
>
> On 4/27/06, Justin Patrin <[email protected] > wrote:
> > On 4/27/06, Arieh Skliarouk <[email protected] > wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I have got an theory regarding spontaneous SL-5500 OZ 3.5.4 crash during
> > > suspend.
> > >
> > > Looks like it happens, when kernel have too much data in buffers to sync
> > > back to the media (SD card).
> > > When buffers don't manage to get on disk in time ( e.g. before the
> general
> > > halt), the kernel stuck.
> > >
> > > This also explains frequency of crash-during-suspend cases while PDA is
> in
> > > craddle, when the files transfer from or to computer just occured, and
> no
> > > forceful sync was done.
> >
> > Sounds like one of those embeddix problems rearing its ugly head
> > again. You could try adding:
> > sync
> > sleep 5
> > or some-such to the suspend script.
> >
> > >
> > > Some time ago I proposed (not related to stuckages) to disable lighiting
> and
> > > blank screen immediately after initation of suspend procedure. That
> would
> > > greatly improve user perception on device's responsiveness.
> > >
> >
> > And you can do that using slbl. (slutils)
> > slbl 0
> >
> > --
> > Justin Patrin
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Arieh


--
Justin Patrin


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