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JotaRata

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Registered: 2025-08-20

Posts: 2

System freezes after resuming from hibernation

Greetings, this is my first post here.

I’m having trouble resuming my system from hibernation.
Instead of returning to the KDE lock screen or SDDM, I get a black screen with a frozen cursor in the top-left corner. Keyboard input has no effect, I can’t switch TTYs, and the only way to log in is to hard-reset the machine.
I also don’t see any useful logs: journalctl -b -1 only shows messages from before hibernation and ends without errors. After a hard reset, journalctl only shows logs from that session.

Hibernation used to work before, and I always used it to save my sessions. I still don't know what could have changed, there is been a while since the last time I hibernated my computer. Since then a lot of driver, firmware and kernel updates may have happened.
Originally I thought it had to do with SDDM and Wayland, since I modified it to run using the Wayland compositor but after reverting this change I realized it had nothing to do. I also uninstalled the Flatpak package, though I doubt this could have an effect and lastly I installed Steam via de multilib repo. Again, I dont think this could be the culprit, but it's the last modifications I did after my last successful hibernation cycle.

Has anyone encountered this issue or knows how to debug it?
I'm using a ASUS Vivobook laptop with a NVIDIA 1050 graphics card, using nvidia 580.76.05-4 driver. I know that NVIDIA has problems with Linux.

The relevant intramfs options are the following:

MODULES=(nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm i915)
HOOKS=(systemd plymouth autodetect microcode modconf sd-vconsole block filesystems fsck)
COMPRESSION="zstd"
COMPRESSION_OPTIONS=(-19 -T0)

Kernel parameters:

root=UUID=5d59c146-1217-4ee9-a049-7e70f8f793ba rw loglevel=3 quiet splash fbcon=nodefer nvidia-drm.modeset=1 nvidia-drm.fbdev=1 resume=UUID=a2183009-213d-400f-a264-badb5a22dfb7

Log from journalctl showing the session during hibernation: https://pastebin.com/hfBAiyQz
And the pacman.log installs of this month: https://pastebin.com/85pDruiF

JotaRata

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Registered: 2025-08-20

Posts: 2

Re: System freezes after resuming from hibernation

I should have mentioned:

I'm booting using an Unified Kernel Image (UKI) but still have GRUB as a backup.
My laptop uses both Nvidia and Intel graphics card.
My swap space is a 16 gb NVMe which was a former Intel optane drive.
This only happens with Hibernation, suspending to RAM works fine