Laptop freeze on suspend

markJT · 2023-05-24 20:58:24

Hi all,

I'm looking for some help in how to identify the possible cause of an issue I've been having for a couple of months now - my laptop won't awake from suspend mode. The screen wakes up and shows the last state captured prior to suspend mode, but is then completely frozen; all display elements are fixed and keyboard input won't work. The keyboard command to switch to another TTY also doesn't work (e.g. CTRL, FN, ALT + F2). The only thing I can action is a hard reboot of my laptop using the power button.

I'm running Arch on a Dell XPS 13 9350 with the most up-to-date system BIOS (although for some time I have had a firmware warning thrown which may or may not be related - see below output from dmesg -l err). I recently moved to tiling windows manager sway after having used i3wm for many years. At first I thought the issue may be with sway/wayland, but I've tested just from outside of sway, in the linux console, and the issue still occurs there.

I don't quite know where to begin to diagnose this issue, but I'll share a few outputs in case that's a useful starting point - if someone could give me some steer on where to look next that would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Output of:

dmesg -l err

[    0.124725] DMAR: [Firmware Bug]: No firmware reserved region can cover this RMRR [0x000000007b800000-0x000000007fffffff], contact BIOS vendor for fixes
[    0.155911] x86/cpu: SGX disabled by BIOS.
[   10.439831] brcmfmac: brcmf_fw_alloc_request: using brcm/brcmfmac4350-pcie for chip BCM4350/8
[   10.487103] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: firmware Patch file not found, tried:
[   10.489204] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: 'brcm/BCM4350C5-0a5c-6412.hcd'
[   10.491211] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: 'brcm/BCM-0a5c-6412.hcd'
[   10.845029] brcmfmac_wcc: brcmf_wcc_attach: executing
[   10.847045] brcmfmac: brcmf_c_process_clm_blob: no clm_blob available (err=-2), device may have limited channels available
[   10.848113] brcmfmac: brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds: Firmware: BCM4350/8 wl0: Oct 22 2015 06:16:26 version 7.35.180.119 (r594535) FWID 01-e791c176

dmesg -l warn

[    0.124731] DMAR: [Firmware Bug]: Your BIOS is broken; bad RMRR [0x000000007b800000-0x000000007fffffff]
               BIOS vendor: Dell Inc.; Ver: 1.13.0; Product Version: 
[    0.191565] MDS CPU bug present and SMT on, data leak possible. See https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.html for more details.
[    0.191565] MMIO Stale Data CPU bug present and SMT on, data leak possible. See https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.html for more details.
[    0.191587]  #3
[    0.199645] ENERGY_PERF_BIAS: Set to 'normal', was 'performance'
[    0.817112] wmi_bus wmi_bus-PNP0C14:01: WQBC data block query control method not found
[    1.641771] i8042: Warning: Keylock active
[    1.659127] usb: port power management may be unreliable
[    8.484210] memfd_create() without MFD_EXEC nor MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL, pid=1 'systemd'
[    8.752302] vboxdrv: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[    8.811040] VBoxNetAdp: Successfully started.
[    8.816520] VBoxNetFlt: Successfully started.
[    8.960707] systemd-journald[225]: File /var/log/journal/d4bab06332244ecfae6cac37e916e231/system.journal corrupted or uncleanly shut down, renaming and replacing.
[    9.477744] ACPI Warning: \_SB.IETM._ART: Return Package type mismatch at index 0 - found Integer, expected Reference (20221020/nspredef-260)
[    9.477756] _ART package 0 is invalid, ignored
[   10.041420] platform regulatory.0: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2
[   10.334895] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1f.3: NHLT table not found
[   10.449387] brcmfmac 0000:3a:00.0: Direct firmware load for brcm/brcmfmac4350-pcie.Dell Inc.-XPS 13 9350.bin failed with error -2
[   10.498064] brcmfmac 0000:3a:00.0: Direct firmware load for brcm/brcmfmac4350-pcie.txt failed with error -2
[   10.501418] brcmfmac 0000:3a:00.0: Direct firmware load for brcm/brcmfmac4350-pcie.clm_blob failed with error -2

A sample of the most recent output from journalctl -b -1 following suspend, freeze and then hard reboot:

May 24 21:38:50 hostname NetworkManager[418]: <warn>  [1684960730.5107] platform-linux: do-add-ip6-address[2: fe80::134d:d127:30eb:8f51]: failure 13 (Permission denie>
May 24 21:38:52 hostname NetworkManager[418]: <warn>  [1684960732.5132] platform-linux: do-add-ip6-address[2: fe80::8f94:57e0:ef89:60e9]: failure 13 (Permission denie>
May 24 21:38:54 hostname systemd-logind[375]: The system will suspend now!
May 24 21:38:54 hostname NetworkManager[418]: <info>  [1684960734.3841] manager: sleep: sleep requested (sleeping: no  enabled: yes)
May 24 21:38:54 hostname NetworkManager[418]: <info>  [1684960734.3842] device (p2p-dev-wlp58s0): state change: disconnected -> unmanaged (reason 'sleeping', sys-ifac>
May 24 21:38:54 hostname NetworkManager[418]: <info>  [1684960734.3847] manager: NetworkManager state is now ASLEEP
May 24 21:38:54 hostname NetworkManager[418]: <info>  [1684960734.3850] device (wlp58s0): state change: activated -> deactivating (reason 'sleeping', sys-iface-state:>
May 24 21:38:54 hostname dbus-daemon[366]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.nm-dispatcher.serv>
May 24 21:38:54 hostname NetworkManager[418]: <info>  [1684960734.3991] device (tun0): state change: activated -> unmanaged (reason 'unmanaged', sys-iface-state: 'rem>
May 24 21:38:54 hostname systemd[1]: Starting Network Manager Script Dispatcher Service...
May 24 21:38:54 hostname dbus-daemon[366]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher'
May 24 21:38:54 hostname systemd[1]: Started Network Manager Script Dispatcher Service.
May 24 21:38:54 hostname wpa_supplicant[384]: wlp58s0: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=22:b0:01:bf:b3:d5 reason=3 locally_generated=1
May 24 21:38:54 hostname wpa_supplicant[384]: wlp58s0: CTRL-EVENT-DSCP-POLICY clear_all
May 24 21:38:54 hostname NetworkManager[418]: <info>  [1684960734.4186] device (wlp58s0): state change: deactivating -> disconnected (reason 'sleeping', sys-iface-sta>
May 24 21:38:54 hostname wpa_supplicant[384]: wlp58s0: CTRL-EVENT-REGDOM-CHANGE init=CORE type=WORLD
May 24 21:38:54 hostname NetworkManager[418]: <info>  [1684960734.4188] dhcp4 (wlp58s0): canceled DHCP transaction
May 24 21:38:54 hostname NetworkManager[418]: <info>  [1684960734.4188] dhcp4 (wlp58s0): activation: beginning transaction (timeout in 45 seconds)
May 24 21:38:54 hostname NetworkManager[418]: <info>  [1684960734.4188] dhcp4 (wlp58s0): state changed no lease
May 24 21:38:54 hostname NetworkManager[418]: <info>  [1684960734.4190] dhcp6 (wlp58s0): canceled DHCP transaction
May 24 21:38:54 hostname NetworkManager[418]: <info>  [1684960734.4190] dhcp6 (wlp58s0): activation: beginning transaction (timeout in 45 seconds)
May 24 21:38:54 hostname NetworkManager[418]: <info>  [1684960734.4190] dhcp6 (wlp58s0): state changed no lease
May 24 21:38:54 hostname NetworkManager[418]: <info>  [1684960734.9389] device (wlp58s0): set-hw-addr: set MAC address to 0E:DD:67:01:5D:CC (scanning)
May 24 21:38:54 hostname expressvpnd[2182]: RTNETLINK answers: No such process
May 24 21:38:54 hostname expressvpnd[2184]: RTNETLINK answers: No such process
May 24 21:38:54 hostname expressvpnd[2186]: RTNETLINK answers: No such process
May 24 21:38:54 hostname NetworkManager[418]: <info>  [1684960734.9849] device (wlp58s0): supplicant interface state: completed -> disconnected
May 24 21:38:54 hostname NetworkManager[418]: <info>  [1684960734.9855] device (wlp58s0): state change: disconnected -> unmanaged (reason 'sleeping', sys-iface-state:>
May 24 21:38:55 hostname NetworkManager[418]: <info>  [1684960735.5050] device (wlp58s0): set-hw-addr: reset MAC address to 74:DF:BF:31:92:3B (unmanage)
May 24 21:38:55 hostname wpa_supplicant[384]: p2p-dev-wlp58s0: CTRL-EVENT-DSCP-POLICY clear_all
May 24 21:38:55 hostname wpa_supplicant[384]: p2p-dev-wlp58s0: CTRL-EVENT-DSCP-POLICY clear_all
May 24 21:38:55 hostname wpa_supplicant[384]: nl80211: deinit ifname=p2p-dev-wlp58s0 disabled_11b_rates=0
May 24 21:38:55 hostname systemd[1]: Reached target Sleep.
May 24 21:38:55 hostname wpa_supplicant[384]: wlp58s0: CTRL-EVENT-DSCP-POLICY clear_all
May 24 21:38:55 hostname systemd[1]: Starting System Suspend...
May 24 21:38:55 hostname wpa_supplicant[384]: wlp58s0: CTRL-EVENT-DSCP-POLICY clear_all
May 24 21:38:55 hostname wpa_supplicant[384]: nl80211: deinit ifname=wlp58s0 disabled_11b_rates=0
May 24 21:38:55 hostname systemd-sleep[2213]: Entering sleep state 'suspend'...
May 24 21:38:55 hostname kernel: PM: suspend entry (deep)

In order to accommodate some scaling issues as well, I recently applied some environment variables directly in /etc/environment

 GDK_BACKEND=wayland
 GDK_DPI_SCALE=0.6

Lastly, when configuring my machine originally (around 2016 now), there were also some recommendations at the time for some system-specific details in /etc/modprobe.d/i915.conf. I believe some of these relate to power saving. These are below:

options i915 enable_fbc=1 enable_psr=0

And the opening section of my /etc/mkinitcpio.conf below (sharing in case I'm pulling in these modules incorrectly).

# MODULES
# The following modules are loaded before any boot hooks are
# run.  Advanced users may wish to specify all system modules
# in this array.  For instance:
# MODULES="piix ide_disk reiserfs"
MODULES="i915 intel_agp nvme"

# BINARIES
# This setting includes any additional binaries a given user may
# wish into the CPIO image.  This is run last, so it may be used to
# override the actual binaries included by a given hook
# BINARIES are dependency parsed, so you may safely ignore libraries
BINARIES=""

# FILES
# This setting is similar to BINARIES above, however, files are added
# as-is and are not parsed in any way.  This is useful for config files.
FILES="/etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf"

Any support is much appreciated!

Thx

Last edited by markJT (2023-05-24 21:02:59)

V1del · 2023-05-24 21:45:08

See https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=285948 which mentions a suspension freeze due to the brcmfmac driver with a potential workaround and a possibly fixing patch that landed in the 6.3.4 kernel, which will likely be packaged shortly is currently in core-testing: https://archlinux.org/packages/core-tes … _64/linux/

Last edited by V1del (2023-05-24 21:47:44)

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#1 2023-05-24 20:58:24

Laptop freeze on suspend

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Re: Laptop freeze on suspend

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