Just installed Tumbleweed (vanilla install) on an HP EliteBook 840 G5 (16GB ram, 256GB SSD, i5-7300U) and it works great, a really awesome distro, but about a week later it stopped being able to enter hibernate mode, either from the logout screen or automatically upon closing the laptop lid (set to do so in System Settings => Power Settings). Basically it seems to try to hibernate - the screen goes dark and lights go off, but then about 1 second later, it wakes up. I wonder if I installed something that inhibits it, or if a system update changed the functionality of hibernate? I don’t see any error messages.
I tried changing the System Settings > Power Settings to other options, rebooting, then back to hibernate but that didn’t help. Free space on hard drive is 150GB.
Sleep works fine, but that will slowly drain the battery.
Sorry.
Why, I hear you ask.
What is the point. You have a SSD. It will boot in seconds. So I can’t see the advantage.
And IF there is another OS such as Windows, then you really don’t want to Hibernate
TW was installed “over” Win10 - which came default on the computer HD - but that hasn’t changed and hibernate was working for a week or two before it stopped working. Win10 will never be used and the Win10 setup process was never run.
The reason for hibernate is no draw on the battery (?) - sleep draws on the battery, which eventually does an uncontrolled halt on the computer, since it can’t get into hibernate on low batt.
So I was just wondering if hibernate is known to be quasi-broken on LEAP/TW and if there was a known trick to get it to work reliably.
Fixed: On an identical laptop, when installing TW, select “enlarge swap file for system suspend” (or words to that effect). Now hibernate works fine. My computational servers never use hibernate - nor do normal work systems - only non-dedicated field laptops that might get inadvertently set-aside for days. That’s just how uncertain things can get in the field.
