[SOLVED]suspend fails

[boopw]

Hi,
I'm running Debian Stretch recently installed, I cannot get my laptop resume after suspending, it seems like the suspend ends up shutting down the system.
Here's what I could get from the logs but I don't know where to look next, any help would be appreciated...

Before suspend:

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systemd[1]: Reached target Sleep.
systemd[1]: Starting Suspend...
systemd-sleep[5704]: Suspending system...

(that's the last thing I found, then resume process)

When trying to resume (it end up rebooting):

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kernel: PM: Checking hibernation image partition /dev/disk/by-uuid/92f30772-c8c5-4272-ad92-a5f6b32846d3
kernel: PM: Hibernation image not present or could not be loaded.
kernel: PM: Starting manual resume from disk
kernel: PM: Hibernation image partition 8:12 present
kernel: PM: Looking for hibernation image.
kernel: PM: Image not found (code -22)
kernel: PM: Hibernation image not present or could not be loaded.

System infos:

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Linux version 4.9.0-9-amd64 (debian-kernel@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 6.3.0 20170516 (Debian 6.3.0-18+deb9u1) ) #1 SMP Debian 4.9.168-1+deb9u2 (2019-05-13)

Hardware:

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H/W path       Device      Class          Description
=====================================================
                           system         N501JW (ASUS-NotebookSKU)
/0                         bus            N501JW
/0/0                       memory         64KiB BIOS
/0/7                       processor      Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4720HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz
/0/7/8                     memory         1MiB L2 cache
/0/7/9                     memory         256KiB L1 cache
/0/7/a                     memory         6MiB L3 cache
/0/b                       memory         8GiB System Memory
/0/b/0                     memory         4GiB SODIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1600 MHz (0.6 ns)
/0/b/1                     memory         DIMM [empty]
/0/b/2                     memory         4GiB SODIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1600 MHz (0.6 ns)
/0/b/3                     memory         DIMM [empty]
/0/100                     bridge         Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor DRAM Controller
/0/100/1                   bridge         Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor PCI Express x16 Controller
/0/100/1/0                 display        GM107M [GeForce GTX 960M]
/0/100/2                   display        4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller
/0/100/3                   multimedia     Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio Controller
/0/100/14                  bus            8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI
/0/100/14/0    usb3        bus            xHCI Host Controller
/0/100/14/0/1              input          USB Receiver
/0/100/14/0/5              communication  Bluetooth wireless interface
/0/100/14/0/7              multimedia     USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam
/0/100/14/0/a              input          SiS HID Touch Controller
/0/100/14/1    usb4        bus            xHCI Host Controller
/0/100/16                  communication  8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1
/0/100/1a                  bus            8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI #2
/0/100/1a/1    usb1        bus            EHCI Host Controller
/0/100/1a/1/1              bus            USB hub
/0/100/1b                  multimedia     8 Series/C220 Series Chipset High Definition Audio Controller
/0/100/1c                  bridge         8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #1
/0/100/1c.2                bridge         8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #3
/0/100/1c.2/0  wlp59s0     network        Wireless 7260
/0/100/1c.3                bridge         8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #4
/0/100/1c.3/0              generic        RTS5227 PCI Express Card Reader
/0/100/1d                  bus            8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI #1
/0/100/1d/1    usb2        bus            EHCI Host Controller
/0/100/1d/1/1              bus            USB hub
/0/100/1f                  bridge         HM87 Express LPC Controller
/0/100/1f.2                storage        8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller 1 [AHCI mode]
/0/100/1f.3                bus            8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller
/0/1           scsi4       storage        
[...]
/0/1/0.0.0/7   /dev/sda7   volume         9537MiB EXT4 volume
[...]
/0/1/0.0.0/c   /dev/sda12  volume         9536MiB Linux swap volume
[...]
/0/2           scsi5       storage        
[...]

note: I added the swap uuid (and nokaslr because I found this in some previous posts...) in grub configuration:

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$ cat /etc/default/grub 
# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
# For full documentation of the options in this file, see:
#   info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet nokaslr resume=/dev/disk/by-uuid/92f30772-c8c5-4272-ad92-a5f6b32846d3"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

# Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs
# This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains
# the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...)
#GRUB_BADRAM="0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef"

# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console

# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
#GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480

# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true

# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
#GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"

# Uncomment to get a beep at grub start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"

Thanks

[Head_on_a_Stick]

How are you attempting to suspend?

Why do the logs refer to hibernation instead?

You should use /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume to set the resume device (and regenerate the initramfs afterwards) but that is for hibernation rather than suspend.

Try the acpi_sleep= kernel parameter:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/713805/ ... -power-off

[boopw]

Hi,

the device is already set in /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume (to the swap partition uuid)

no chance with "acpi_sleep=nonvs" but it seems to be a very peculiar case

I tried different things to suspend:

- using gnome buttons
- systemctl suspend
- power button (which does the same)

I got the same result. I think the suspend process fails for some reason, and then the system try to find a hibernation partition because it really powered off (I suppose...), it looks like the suspend process doesn't complete and the power switches off before it ends. I didn't see anything I could really change in the BIOS regarding power management.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Perhaps try a live version of Debian buster and see if that works any better.

Or update the motherboard firmware ("BIOS") but that can be risky.

[boopw]

Well indeed the BIOS was outdated, I upgraded from 209 to 211 and things work just fine,
I didn't think a slightly outdated BIOS could prevent this to work, the last version is only a few months younger than the one I had and it's from 2015.
Thanks for your help !