Cannot shutdown, wake, sleep,etc.
The entire computer seems to stay on. All RGB, Fans, GPU all stay on after shutdown or sleep. I have to unplug the computer.
Once I plug it back in, it boots up.
AMD 9070xt
Ryzen 5 6700x IIRC
Newish to linux, so not sure how I would even begin to trouble shoot this. Just switched from windows last night.
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I have this exact same issue, it's driving me nuts. I'm on kde nvidia desktop edition, it only happens every other time. The fans, rgb lights stay on; the power button alternates normally as if it's on sleep mode - but it won't wake up/shutdown when I hit it.
When it happens I just have to shut the power off. Hope to resolve this soon, super annoying.
Also, interesting to see it's not an amd/nvidia issue
Found these two posts which sound familiar. Wondering if it's a Fedora41 issue, then:
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/after-upgrade-to-f41-suspend-does-not-work/136009
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/fedora-41-not-suspending-shutting-down-correctly/144466
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After upgrade to F41, suspend does not work
Suspend worked fine for me in F40, but after F41 upgrade, it does not work. In F41, clicking “Suspend” causes the following behaviour for me: Screen goes blank Machine power light remains in the “on” state rather than the blinking “suspend” state. I cannot recover from this. Pressing keyboard buttons/moving mouse has no effect. I h...
Fedora Discussion
Fedora 41 not suspending/shutting down correctly
Hey people, i hope somebody can help me about this problem im having. In F41, clicking power button for “Suspend” causes the following behaviour for me: Screen goes blank Machine power light “blinks” as if indicating that the system is suspended GPU RGB and all internal fan are still on I cannot recover from this. Pressing keyboard bu...
I'm so glad i have a steam deck instead, all i have to do is press spacebar on my USB keyboard and it boots off of suspend mode...
Steam deck with steamos, or bazzite? I'm using bazzite desktop mode as an htpc cos my pc is hooked to a large tv, I'm controlling it with a wireless kb with touchpad
Steam deck with bazzite
Ah, yeah sounds nice. I also normally just press any key on kb and it resume - but idk what's wrong with this one. Sometimes it just won't suspend or shutdown at all
I do also turn hibernate off on windows, I'm assuming what's happened there is happwening here too
I have hibernate toggled off on windows (I'm dual booting, different drives), and also disabled fast boot in bios
right but windows has its own fast boot outside hibernating and bios
Damn, that's a horrible user experience. Can you not hold the powerbutton for 4 seconds instead of unplugging it?
idk if perhaps their hibernation file is conflicting with this one
I can hold the power button in order to hard shutdown the pc - but it happens quite a lot of times plus I lose my desktop session so it's not very convenient
i mean once it's in it's not quite shut down state
I don't think everyone who experiences this bug dual boots windows so idk if it's some conflict with windows
Hey can you see if you have automatic suspend on in Settings > Power? Or if you manually suspend it
maybe itll have different results if you turn that setting off or change it
Do you mean here?
hmmmmmm
i know theres a way to stop this from happening
cuz this was also happening on Mint XFCE
On mint the exact same issue of not being able to shutdown nor suspend, and fans/lights kept on?
I mean this was with an AMD Athlon X2 240 and no gadgets or gizmos but my num lock indicator kept on and my mouse was still connected, but no signal to neither VGA nor HDMI
Nor DVI
Looks like this was present on fedora 38
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/cant-shutdown-or-turn-sleep-pc/85738
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Can't shutdown or turn sleep PC
sometimes after pressing Power Off button Fedora is shutting down, monitor screen is turning off but power led is on and fan is still spinning. So I have to long press power button to completely turn off PC. Same behavior when Fedora turns to sleep. However, sometimes power off/sleep is working correct. And that is not matter what I did before t...
Yea i was actually just looking at that
maybe its because automatic suspend is on
but... hang on
you dont seem to have automatic suspend on
this is what i see
but that was with F38
we're on 42
41
hmmmmm
it says im on 42
well that's odd :<
Did you manually upgrade bazzite to 42? I run 'ujust update' a couple times a day, is this not how you update the os?
Do you get any errors in the journal after shutdown?
journalctl -b -1 -e where -b -1 is from the previous boot and -e just to the endI'll have to check it after I get this error again. Should it be there after a faulty suspend as well?
I don't remember if my last boot was a faulty one, it did happen in like the last hour or so, but not sure if this was my previous session. Just in case posting logs
for me I apparently downloaded version 42 from their website
I'm not sure if wake after suspend gets counted as a boot. Grepping on error might omit quite a bit. You could also just do a shutdown or suspend and keep track of the time. You can get the logs between any given times. Example
journalctl -S "2025-04-06 19:00" -U "2025-04-06 20:00" The date format is yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss where seconds are optional
also make sure you're on the latest stable bios version for your moboJust wanted to update that while I haven't ran it for long enough to confirm, it looks like this solution from the two posts I initially posted in this thread seems to be working for me so far (of course I have no idea what it does and whether it's safe, so do it at your own risk):
And:
It happened again last night, looks very common when I hit the shutdown button and letting it countdown to 30s before shutting down on itself.
I'm sending the log here for future reference if any1 has any clue what on earth is going on
https://pastebin.com/mCWK6Qb6
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Happening a couple of times a day, have to hard power off every time. This time it happened during suspend. Attaching relevant logs here, from journalctl -b -1
I'm hoping/coping so hard Fedora 42 will resolve this lol
Do you have any Bluetooth devices connected? I've had the same issue in the past where my JoyCons would cause the same issues if they were connected before Suspend/Shutdown. Might be worth trying with disabled Bluetooth if it applies to you.
Thanks, nah I don’t think that’s it. Just turned bluetooth off and put system to suspend, and it happened again. I appreciate the devs, but honestly I’m tempted so hard to go back to windows, linux is giving me a death by a thousand cuts lol