I have never had a problem with Ubuntu and hibernating my laptop (not a
netbook though)
First version of Ubuntu on my laptop was probably 9.04 or maybe 9.10

I think it is currently running 10.10 or maybe 11.04... as I am dreading
the catastrophic desktop change. 

On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 03:47 -0500, Mike Miller wrote:

> Just thought I should resend with the right subject line...
> 
> 
> On Thu, 10 May 2012, Mike Miller wrote:
> 
> > (1) Hibernate.  Just did it, it works, it used to die and require 
> > reboot. Suspend always worked and still does.
> 
> There was an additional annoyance:  12.04 doesn't have hibernate available 
> in menus by default.  To run the hibernate process I had to launch 
> pm-hibernate from the command line like so:
> 
> sudo pm-hibernate
> 
> I did that, it worked and everything came back on restart, but I didn't 
> have to enter a password.
> 
> I want the usual shutdown/suspend menus to include "hibernate" as an 
> option, so I googled a bit and found this:
> 
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/94754/how-to-enable-hibernation-in-12-04
> 
> The instruction there is to place this text...
> 
> [Re-enable hibernate by default]
> Identity=unix-user:*
> Action=org.freedesktop.upower.hibernate
> ResultActive=yes
> 
> ...into this file:
> 
> /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/com.ubuntu.enable-hibernate.pkla
> 
> 
> I did that, restarted, the menus then had "hibernate" as an option (both 
> the menu in the upper right of the Unity desktop and the one that appers 
> when I press the power button).
> 
> I tested the hibernate menu option.  It worked.  When Ubuntu came back it 
> made me log in to get back to my open windows, which is the correct 
> behavior, I would say, but I guess pm-hibernate doesn't do that (I tried 
> it again and the behavior was the same).
> 
> Hibernate is a killer feature with this laptop because it his great 
> battery life.  It can suspend for days, but it can hibernate a lot longer. 
> It comes back pretty quickly from hibernation, so I'm setting it to 
> hibernate when I close the lid:
> 
> (1) click the battery icon on the upper bar
> (2) choose power settings
> (3) set them how you want them
> 
> For me, I chose "Hibernate" both for "When power is critically low" and 
> "When the lid is closed."  I also tested it by closing the lid, it 
> hibernated and came back up (with password screen).
> 
> So far, so good.
> 
> Mike
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