I've been trying to get hibernation to work, and am having problems. The system seems to go into hibernation just fine, but when I try to restore from disk, the process stops just after a message saying "Image restoration successful". This is before I'm able to switch to a new tty. <code>Ctrl-alt-del</code> works. SysRq commands seem to work, although I'm not sure what to do with them.

Suspend (to RAM) works fine when I close the lid or use <code>s2ram</code> or <code>pm-suspend</code>. If I use <code>s2both</code> or <code>s2disk</code>, I see the messages about the image being written to disk; if I treat <code>s2both</code> (or 
<code>pm-suspend-hybrid</code>) as a suspend (eg, restore without cutting power), it works. But if I cut power and do a cold boot, after the progress indicator seems to say the image is done loading, the process just stops.

Does anyone know how I can fix this? Or at least what my next debugging/troubleshooting steps should be?

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I'm using (K)Ubuntu 12.04, kernel 3.2.0-38-generic. I have 2GB of RAM and 4GB of swap.





This (month-old unanswered forum post) looks very similar to my situation (except for the message about user id - which he gets but I don't)
http://forum.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=708058&sid=e8bd8eba8fad0b25597209e365d6edf4

<br>Edit: Update

So, this is now kinda 'half-solved'. Gilles' answer got me past the place where I was stuck, but I still don't know what caused the problem. I am now having further problems, so I will need to keep debugging this, in case they are related - and would very much welcome further tips on what might have caused this problem in the first place.

(New problem seems to be a more severe lock-up (that 'magic SysRq' doesn't help) when I try to hibernate/s2disk with more than ~500MB of memory used. Didn't think to test w/ a high memory load, ouch ...)