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I am having trouble with the suspend option. I have a laptop and I want whenever I close the lid to suspend. I changed it from the Power of the System Settings both for Plugged In and On Battery, but to no avail. I close the lid and it still is on. I tried to suspend it manually from the power button in the top right corner and it shows the same behavior as the Lock option. What can I do? Nothing I found on the web works. It's of importance to me to have the suspend option because of overheating. I should probably say that I am new in the elementary OS. Thank you in advance.

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  • is systemctl suspend working?
    – user170
    Dec 6, 2017 at 16:23

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It is probably because you are missing the swap space. Trying adding a swap partition manually. You can check if you have a swap space using free -m If total swap is 0, you need to allocate some space for swap. Usually taken 1.5x Your RAM size.

Create a 4 Gigabyte or more (according to your RAM size) swap file by typing:

sudo fallocate -l 4G /swapfile

Change permissions for your swap file

sudo chmod 600 /swapfile

Now make swap using sudo mkswap /swapfile and then enable the swap partion by typing

sudo swapon /swapfile

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    First of, thank you for your time. No, I have swap partition. I have 3GB of RAM and i made 4.1GB swap partition. To be sure, I used the free -m command and it shows 3909 total and all of them free right now. But as far as I know, the swap partition is needed for the hibernate option. The suspend option keeps the laptop on, so it keeps everything in the RAM as usual. Maybe it's a bug? Because when I suspend manually from the menu, after 2-3 seconds it locks instead of suspend.
    – geo1230
    Apr 10, 2017 at 9:38
  • Try installing pm-utils and then try suspending using pm-suspend. See how that works out.
    – Shashank Shekhar
    Apr 10, 2017 at 10:10
  • how do i install it? just with sudo apt-get install pm-utils? And what exactly is this? Is there any chance I have this already? Thanks.
    – geo1230
    Apr 10, 2017 at 10:36
  • Yes, that is how you install it. Pm-utils is a collection of shell scripts that wrap the kernel mode suspend/resume with the various hacks. These hacks are needed to work around bugs in drivers and subsystems that are not yet aware of suspend.
    – Shashank Shekhar
    Apr 10, 2017 at 12:16
  • I used the pm-suspend and it says "This utility may only be run by the root user." So, I used sudo pm-suspend, the screen went black for a couple of seconds and then nothing, it returned to the terminal. Now what should I do?
    – geo1230
    Apr 10, 2017 at 12:31

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