Card: GeForce GTX 970 Kernel: 5.16.0 System manager: systemd 250.2 Greeter: GDM 41 Desktop Environment: Gnome 41 on Wayland My computer sometimes fails to suspend, and I see this in dmesg: Freezing user space processes ... Freezing of tasks failed after 20.009 seconds (1 tasks refusing to freeze,…

Interestingly for me, it doesn’t actually suspend. It goes to s2idle (no video signal) and wakes back up after 20 seconds.

what if you systemctl isolate multi-user.target and systemctl suspend… assuming you’re on systemd

Same thing - it just tries to suspend for 20 seconds and then it wakes back up to the gnome login screen.

NVreg_EnableS0ixPowerManagement=1 works for me with Wayland session.

Had the same issue on Fedora 35 after upgrade to nvidia 510.47.03 and kernel 5.16.5. This fixed it for me, working suspend/resume without graphics corruption: Uninstall the package “xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-power”. Reboot. Select GNOME as session during logon, not “GNOME on Wayland”.

I found a solution. gnome-shell is trying to talk to the NVIDIA driver after it has already gone into suspend, so it can’t respond. Linux tries to freeze the task, but fails because gnome-shell is waiting for a response from the driver and can’t be frozen. The solution is to manually suspend gnome…

I tested your solution and worked perfectly. I think we just need to test with other suspend-related options enabled, like “NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations” and “NVreg_EnableS0ixPowerManagement” to see if there are no conflicts. Maybe your solution could be implemented by distros or GNOME can t…

This also seems to solve it on my end for Fedora 36 and a 3080! just make sure to sudo chmod +x on the user script for anyone trying this!

This solution very unfortunately breaks “Resume from Hibernation” in systems that have no support for S0ix - I have a new alderlake H670 motherboard that does not support S0ix and has no option to enable it in BIOS - as tested with Intel’s S0ix support testing script. This workaround does enable Re…

Trouble suspending with 510.39.01, Linux 5.16.0: Freezing of tasks failed after 20.009 seconds

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mhalano April 19, 2022, 4:42pm 11

I have this problem with 510.60.02 and Linux 5.17.3

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Trouble suspending with 510.39.01, Linux 5.16.0: Freezing of tasks failed after 20.009 seconds

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