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bmentink

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2009-08-23

Posts: 442

Howto suspend with systemd [SOLVED]

Hi All,

I have converted my machines to full systemd including some laptops. ... and am on the whole, very happy with systemd ..

I notice my daughter's laptop (a Samsung N70)  sleeps and resumes just fine without any extra work from me ..
However, my Sony vaio laptop just reboots when I use the Gnome3 suspend menu item. Is there something else I can try to get it to suspend?
I presume the Gnome3 suspend is suspend and not hibernate to disk ..

NB: The samsung was installed from a fresh installation, where the Sony has been recently upgraded and converted to systemd.

Thanks,
B

Last edited by bmentink (2012-09-17 04:18:14)

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Howto suspend with systemd [SOLVED]

First of all, don't presume things - establish the facts. I have no experience with Gnome, so my advice would be to see if 'systemctl suspend' works in a terminal. If it does, then you need to make sure that's what Gnome uses. If it doesn't you have a more fundamental issue, and the information provided by the systemd journal will help you solve it.

bmentink

Member

From: New Zealand

Registered: 2009-08-23

Posts: 442

Re: Howto suspend with systemd [SOLVED]

Ok I have found the solution:

I need to pass a kernel parameter "acpi_sleep=nonvs" to the kernel append line in the bootloader config file. In my case syslinux.cfg.
I missed that setting when switching from grub to syslinux ..

Marking solved.