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Koli

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Registered: 2025-12-03

Posts: 3

Regular freeze on wake from sleep

Hey,

I've been using Arch for a while, daily it since September, but I don't consider myself an expert at all. I've been having wake from sleep issues since the very beginning, on good days it works fine, on bad days, which is like once a week, the system hangs with a black screen and a cursor, at least it stays like that for minutes. I tried switching ttys to no avail. I was on nvidia (40xx) with nvidia-open earlier, but switched to AMD (RDNA4) in december, and my issues persist. It'd be annoying regardless, but since I'm still using ntfs partitions as a windows refugee, it's particularly bad having to boot into windows just to chkdsk. I tried going through the logs, and I see some errors, but I can't make too much sense of it. I guess the short of it is amdgpu spams errors as long as the system is on, and kwin occasionally complains about pageflip timeout. I've seen this from linux 6.15 to 6.18 for sure, KDE 6.5 and 6.6, and it feels the same between switching GPU vendors too. Any suggestion or direction how to debug is much appreciated

Here are my logs of the sleep-wake period in case someone can see more in it than I can: https://pastebin.com/aWu21T1n

Thanks!

Last edited by Koli (2026-02-21 19:55:33)

Cipher69969

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From: kerala

Registered: 2020-04-21

Posts: 18

Re: Regular freeze on wake from sleep

Use sysrq https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Keyboa … el_(SysRq) to safely shutdown your system when it freezes.

And check if using linux-lts kernel fixes the issue.

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Koli

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Registered: 2025-12-03

Posts: 3

Re: Regular freeze on wake from sleep

Thank you for your answer!
I knew about sysrq and used it before, but I had no idea we had to enable it these days, I just assumed "well things surely are really broken".
I haven't tried switching kernels yet, but the usual freeze happened today, I was able to reboot using the key sequence without NTFS freaking out, so that's one frustrating down. I'm hesitant to go back to the last LTS, given people tend to blanket recomment newer kernels for RDNA4 GPUs, but the next one should be out relatively soon, I can probably live that out