I'm not exactly sure what caused this to happen, but about two days ago the initscript from sys-power/hibernate-script (version 1.91, later on reproduced with 1.93) began to report a startup failure. What happens was: - the first function in the start block checks swap partitions. This part works fine, invalidating my suspend images as it should; - the second function in the block checks for images stored in files. There is a special file which must exist if there is such an image present and the block does a "[ -f file ] || return" to check for it. I don't use image files, so it returns here; however, although as far as I can say the script itself hasn't changed for quite a while, on my up-to-date system the aforementioned test line sets the return value to 1. - the final line of the script is the Gentoo-specific "eend $?', which sees the 1 from above and throws an error. It is quite easy to see the problem is caused by passing an inherited return value from the second function instead of signalling "nothing to do here, but everything is fine". The upstream initscript could get away with this because it doesn't check the return value, but in our case it definitely should be controlled. The attached patch forces the function to return zero if this test fails.
Created attachment 91793 [details, diff] hibernate-script-1.93-fwreturn.patch
Fixed in CVS! Thanks a lot. Please reopen the bugs, if you're still having this issues.
