New Bazzite install won't wake from sleep

Hi everyone. Just installed Bazzite on an older machine and loving it so far. I have noticed that when I put my machine to sleep, I'm not able to get it to wake. I've tried pressing the physical power key, using the keyboard, and using the mouse, but cannot get it to wake. Is there a setting I am missing here? The machine was able to wake up from sleep when it had Windows as the OS.
13 Replies
nagito || Knight of Emilia
echo freeze | sudo tee /sys/power/state should put it to sleep in a way that it can wake hopefully the effect is immediete it won't change the default sleep behavior but if this works we can change the default
Exigent Egret
Exigent EgretOP3w ago
Thanks for your reply! When using that command from the terminal I get the following output: freeze tee: /sys/power/state: Input/output error
nagito || Knight of Emilia
did you copy the command exactly? very strange error
Exigent Egret
Exigent EgretOP3w ago
Just tried again to verify, the command was exact. Looking into what that response means now. Never seen that before.
nagito || Knight of Emilia
the error is real weird i might have seen it once before not in this context though
Exigent Egret
Exigent EgretOP3w ago
I spent some time looking into it. Can't find anything about it in this context. Not sure how to continue, other than to just turn the machine off when not using it. Not the worst outcome. Thanks for your help @nagito || Knight of Emilia!
Assassin
Assassin3w ago
Its a known issue that people have talked about previously and i'm unsure if there is actually a fix. If there's not an issue on github i'd recommend opening one
>Rawr< BK
>Rawr< BK3w ago
I ran into this issue after updating also.
Parciwal
Parciwal3w ago
I have the same problem
Cobalt
Cobalt6d ago
Same here. Did that github issue ever get created? I also tried the echo freeze | sudo tee... recommendation and got an identical result. Input/output error.
DKesserich
DKesserich6d ago
Sleep in Desktop mode just seems to be broken in Bazzite 43. On my system it won't enter sleep at all when in Desktop mode. I ended up rolling back to F42.20251019
BubosBamba
BubosBamba6d ago
If it is purely sleep, you guys might be getting hit by a KDE bug: bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510992 For context: I have the same issue on bazzite and a cachyos machine. Its both KDE, but other people also report the same behaviour on Niri for example. Its really strange and most likely a kernel bug being exposed
Cobalt
Cobalt6d ago
I've also found that the power button also doesn't resume the system from sleep. (Now, I don't know if that's a BIOS setting I ought to change or further evidence of a problem, but one more data point at least.) That's interesting. Reviewing journald:
/usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep/fw-fanctrl-suspend failed with exit status 1.
/usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep/fw-fanctrl-suspend failed with exit status 1.
For every time the system was put to sleep. :thinkface: Red herring. Enabling fw-fanctrl did not change the behavior at all.

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