Be careful when switching users and suspending ..

[jean.jordaan]

I've repeatedly managed to torture my laptop like this:

- log in as user A.
- log out.
- just a moment before the login screen is all nice and ready again, close the lid.

What happens? When I put my laptop in my bag now, it does not suspend. It just gets hotter and hotter and finally runs out of battery and *tries* to hibernate.
When I try to wake it up, it asks me for my password (disk encryption). But then nothing happens. It doesn't really know how to hibernate
I have to lean on the power key and start it up from scratch.

Do other people run into this non-suspend issue?

System: Host: UX303LB Kernel: 3.19.0-18-generic x86_64 (64 bit)
Desktop: MATE 1.12.0 Distro: Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa
Machine: Mobo: ASUSTeK model: UX303LB v: 1.0

[Pjotr]

Try this workaround:
https://sites.google.com/site/easylinux ... -desktops-
(item 7, right column)

[jean.jordaan]

Ah, that's interesting. Currently I have

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$ grep HandleLid /etc/systemd/logind.conf 
HandleLidSwitch=ignore

I guess I could try putting suspend in there. I certainly don't want poweroff.

What currently handles suspend-on-lid-close? Why is that mechanism failing in only this case?