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dapt4

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Registered: 2026-02-03

Posts: 7

My laptop freezes when it goes into sleep mode.

Hello everyone, thanks if you're reading this. I have a problem: I installed Arch using archinstall with the GNOME desktop environment, and I'm having issues with suspend because the system won't wake up after going to sleep.

CORRECTION
The failure when waking the system occurs either after logging in or without logging in. While it is possible to switch to a TTY, all TTYs simply show a blinking "_" symbol, and I am unable to restart the system in any way; I can only perform a hard (forced) shutdown. I do not have Windows installed, nor is there a dual-boot setup with another Linux distribution—the laptop runs exclusively on Arch Linux. I have no way to access a terminal to force a wake-up or a shutdown.

Here are some specs of my laptop:

   ❯ neofetch
                   -`                    XXX@XXX
                  .o+`                   ----------
                 `ooo/                   OS: Arch Linux x86_64
                `+oooo:                  Host: HP Laptop 15-fc0xxx
               `+oooooo:                 Kernel: 7.2.10-arch1-1
               -+oooooo+:                Uptime: 45 mins
             `/:-:++oooo+:               Packages: 1288 (pacman), 16 (flatpak)
            `/++++/+++++++:              Shell: zsh 5.9.2
           `/++++++++++++++:             Resolution: 1280x1024
          `/+++ooooooooooooo/`           DE: GNOME 51.1
         ./ooosssso++osssssso+`          WM: Mutter
        .oossssso-````/ossssss+`         WM Theme: Adwaita
       -osssssso.      :ssssssso.        Theme: Adwaita [GTK2/3]
      :osssssss/        osssso+++.       Icons: Adwaita [GTK2/3]
     /ossssssss/        +ssssooo/-       Terminal: kitty
   `/ossssso+/:-        -:/+osssso+-     CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7730U with Radeon Graphics (16) @ 4.547GHz
  `+sso+:-`                 `.-/+oso:    GPU: AMD ATI 03:00.0 Barcelo
`++:.                           `-/+/   Memory: 7109MiB / 15317MiB

I'd appreciate any input, thanks!

Last edited by dapt4 (Today 11:36:38)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 78,630

Re: My laptop freezes when it goes into sleep mode.

Please don't paraphrase, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855
Edit your post and chose a meaningful subject and the elaborate on the details of the wakeup failure, eg. whether it also happens when only booting the multi-user.target (2nd link below) whether you can switch the TTY or reboot using https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Keyboa … el_(SysRq) + REISUB

Ceterum censeo, in case there's a parallel windows installation see the 3rd link below. Mandatory.
Disable it (it's NOT the BIOS setting!) and reboot windows and linux twice for voodo reasons.

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