Hello all, for a few weeks/months now, my computer has stopped going into suspend mode. Here is what happens when putting it to sleep (using GNOME’s power menu) or using systemctl suspend:
- Display turns off, peripherals turn off (keyboard lights off etc), fans spin up before sleep as usual
- Fans go back to idle speed, computer stays on
- Have to press the keyboard, wake the display up and go in the power menu again to suspend it (from the lock screen), and it works every time like this.
I have no idea what could be preventing suspend and what I could find online did not really help a lot. I don’t think it is a USB device because I tried unplugging most of them except my mouse or my keyboard and it still did not work, and the second time on the lock screen it always suspends like intended
- Distro: Fedora 40
- DE: Gnome 46
- GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1080Ti (Wayland)
- CPU: Intel 10850K
- MB: Gigabyte Z590 Gaming X (everything is up to date)
thx !
Do you have steam running in the background? Or do you have gamemoded enabled?
Good question, I will check after work if steam starts in the background or something, I’ve had some issues with steam in the past so what you’re saying could make sense…
Step 1: give up
New kernel may introduce regressions. See this similar issue on kernel 6.10.3, or try another version of kernel on startup if it’s possible.
How does one check what kernal one has? Does the kernal vary by distro? How does one update it?
Not OP, just a Linux newb trying to learn, if you don’t mind explaining that is. :_
uname -aUpdates depend on the specific distro. Some, like debian, keep the major version the same throughout the entire lifetime, just backporting the security fixes, others, like arch, follows the official major releases more closely.
I’d start with looking at what the logs say when the computer fails to sleep.
Running journalctl -r -u systemd-suspend.service does not suggest anything is wrong, just normal status messages. I will try to see if I need a BIOS update, maybe it’s really out of date.
edit yeah current bios is F7c (apr 2022), most recent is F10 (dec 2023). will do that
Edit 2 that didn’t solve it
Perhaps not useful, but my linux machine doesn’t sleep unless I disconnect my ploopy trackball first, exhibiting the same symptoms.
I had this theory since I got some new usb periphs relatuvelu recently, but that was not the issue
Ploopy?
I use a poopy nano https://ploopy.co/nano-trackball/
