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My #Debian / #Gnome laptop is having serious trouble waking up. It's been getting worse over the last few days. The only thing that makes it wake up at this point is plugging an external monitor into it. Next chance I get, I'll disable all the extensions and see if the problem persists and then trouble shoot them all individually (sigh).
Any other suggestions?
Nota bene: I turned off some extensions that I wasn't really using anyway, and the wake/sleep problem went away. Worth noting that that's a thing that can happen.
@OrionKidder if you find an answer let me know!!!
@OrionKidder When's the last time you did a normal shutdown or reboot? I'm yet to find any OS/distro that can indefinitely sleep or hibernate without a poweroff or reboot.
@jumile Oh, yesterday. First thing I tried.
@OrionKidder Oh! Oh dear. Short of something like nuking the hibernate file/partition, I can't suggest much.
@jumile I'm going to troubleshoot my extensions. I have been adjusting them lately.
@OrionKidder Download `powertop` `sudo apt install powertop`. Then check the last tab 'WakeUp", make sure what you want to wake with is enabled. `lsusb` to see what each device is in more detail.
It'll tell you, but it just modifies a file in /sys/ to allow it to wake the system.
@tripplehelix I'll give that a look! Thank you!
@OrionKidder Silly question: have you checked the system journal after plugging in a monitor and waking the computer? That may provide clues as to what is happening when the machine goes to sleep or wakes with issues. ‘journalctl -n 2000’ will print the last 2000 lines of journal entries, for example. ‘-b’ will print everything since the last boot.
@michelamarie Nor a silly question! I'm very new, and I didn't know this was a thing I could do. Thank you!
@OrionKidder Cool! Well, I hope the journal reveals some useful information to identify the issue! Learning Linux can be really fun and interesting, even when things don’t go as you expect. Hopefully, you’ll learn some interesting things in solving this problem, and have fun with it, too! 