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Enrico1989

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Registered: 2018-07-05

Posts: 236

[SOLVED] System freezes upon systemctl suspend

Since a day or two, if I execute

systemctl suspend

the system freezes completely, or at least that's how I describe what I observe:

• not even the mouse cursor moves,

• I can't even switch to another VT via cltr+alt+F2,3,4...

My OS is an up-to-date ArchLinux, and I use XMonad as WM, but I've reproduced the issue from i3 as well.

I haven't tried yet executing the above command from a virtual console, i.e. without X running. Would such experiment be useful?

Here is the output of

journalctl -b -1

if that's useful to understand what's going on.

Last edited by Enrico1989 (2024-06-21 17:39:33)

mesaprotector

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Registered: 2024-03-03

Posts: 161

Re: [SOLVED] System freezes upon systemctl suspend

I bet it started when you updated to systemd v256. That update breaks sleep on Nvidia laptops like yours (and mine)!

"The behavior of systemd-sleep and systemd-homed has been updated to freeze user sessions when entering the various sleep modes or when locking a homed-managed home area. This is known to cause issues with the proprietary NVIDIA drivers. Packagers of the NVIDIA proprietary drivers may want to add drop-in configuration files that set SYSTEMD_SLEEP_FREEZE_USER_SESSIONS=false for systemd-suspend.service and related services, and SYSTEMD_HOME_LOCK_FREEZE_SESSION=false for systemd-homed.service."

See this Debian mail thread for how to fix it. You'll have to create five nvidia.conf files in /usr/lib/systemd/system.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 23,287

Re: [SOLVED] System freezes upon systemctl suspend

A fix is also pending in the current nvidia-utils package from testing, might want to install that instead, or wait a bit for it to go to stable.

Enrico1989

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Registered: 2018-07-05

Posts: 236

Re: [SOLVED] System freezes upon systemctl suspend

Ok, I've got the update and suspend works fine. Not even needed to reboot.

cephalicmarble

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Registered: 2017-01-25

Posts: 10

Re: [SOLVED] System freezes upon systemctl suspend

Hi. It also breaks nvidia desktops, at least those that derive their modules and libs from aur/nvidia-390xx-utils, like mine.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED] System freezes upon systemctl suspend

Follow the instructions in the linked thread or apply the same fix. https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … 4b45a60708

cephalicmarble

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Registered: 2017-01-25

Posts: 10

Re: [SOLVED] System freezes upon systemctl suspend

Sorry - I had to grep for the environment variable name and combine with a different hack for it to work:

~]$ more $(find /etc/systemd -name nvidia.conf)
::::::::::::::
/etc/systemd/system/systemd-suspend.service.d/nvidia.conf
::::::::::::::
[Service]
Environment="SYSTEMD_SLEEP_FREEZE_USER_SESSIONS=false"
::::::::::::::
/etc/systemd/system/systemd-homed.service.d/nvidia.conf
::::::::::::::
[Service]
Environment="SYSTEMD_HOME_LOCK_FREEZE_SESSION=false"

AND ALSO

~]$ cat /proc/cmdline
... nvidia-drm.modeset=1 nvidia-drm.fbdev=1 ...

pav02

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Registered: 2016-01-03

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] System freezes upon systemctl suspend

The number of people hit by this issue may be a lot bigger than Nvidia laptops, I use HP Probook with Radeon integrated card, non-UEFI legacy BIOS machine, no Nvidia components. The above workaround with drop-in user unit for systemd-suspend.service worked. It may be useful to have it a part of distro or indicated in Power_management/Suspend_and_hibernate.