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is hibernating in MX still unavailable? [solved]

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Last time I checked to see whether MX could hibernate, quite a long time ago, the answer was no. It didn't work. Just checking to see if that has been improved on. I'm still using MX 16.
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lonesomepoint wrote: Tue Jan 01, 2019 1:13 pm Last time I checked to see whether MX could hibernate, quite a long time ago, the answer was no. It didn't work. Just checking to see if that has been improved on. I'm still using MX 16.
we incorporated a hibernate function that is disabled by default in MX17. While it seems better, we can't guarantee it works on any machine.

its enabled via MX-Tweak->Other tab.
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<yet another Wiki page out of date>
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dolphin_oracle wrote: Tue Jan 01, 2019 1:32 pm
lonesomepoint wrote: Tue Jan 01, 2019 1:13 pm Last time I checked to see whether MX could hibernate, quite a long time ago, the answer was no. It didn't work. Just checking to see if that has been improved on. I'm still using MX 16.
we incorporated a hibernate function that is disabled by default in MX17. While it seems better, we can't guarantee it works on any machine.

its enabled via MX-Tweak->Other tab.
Before I go installing MX-17, I should make sure: I can't get this hibernation functionality in MX-16 by merely installing or upgrading certain software? I have been burning MX-17 to a DVD; then I wondered whether that was actually necessary. It wouldn't hurt to upgrade to 17, but...except for hibernation not functioning, 16 works for me.

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I remember having it work in MX 16, but it involved manually editing a XFCE setting file, plus maybe setting a resume partition and possibly "sudo dpkg-reconfigure uswswap". Now MX Tweak changes that XFCE setting.

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Stevo wrote: Wed Jan 02, 2019 3:50 pm I remember having it work in MX 16, but it involved manually editing a XFCE setting file, plus maybe setting a resume partition and possibly "sudo dpkg-reconfigure uswswap". Now MX Tweak changes that XFCE setting.
I think I may need to do that whether in MX-16 or 17, because I am getting the same error message in both--

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Warning: Tuxonice binary signature file not found
I don't understand what that means except that a file is missing; but I know I've seen it many times before, in problems with hibernate going back long before MX existed.

There is only a slight difference in result. So I enter

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sudo hibernate
in a terminal, essentially because I forgot there even was a hibernate button in the GUI. (I see now there is; but it doesn't do anything at all in MX-16. Nothing happens when I click it.) In both 16 and 17, when the system tries to hibernate but obviously fails, the screen blanks briefly and then reappears with the error message. The blanking and reappearing just happens faster in 17.
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I don't understand what that means except that a file is missing
Trying doing a web search on the error message ("Warning: Tuxonice binary signature file not found") for which I see many hits, some marked solved.
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