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suspend/resume: (almost) endless try-and-error loop resuming

For quite a while, I'm experiencing "a bumpy ride" when trying to resume from suspend, running Xubuntu 20.04.1 (64bit):

  • It goes to sleep, but:
  • when I try to resume, it wakes up for a few seconds
  • then freezes
  • then goes back to suspend
  • continue as long as you like
  • maybe you get a stable login session back ;)

Sometimes, when trying long enough to "revive" it, I get a stable login in X11, seeing the following error message:

xubuntu GDBus.Error:örg.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs: Type of message, '(yb)', does not match expected type '(b)'

I've found this report 15919 - login / logout race condition with dbus error in the old bugzilla. Closed as it couldn't be reproduced.

I'm having this issue for over half a year now.

Any ideas? 😄 Grateful for any suggestions

PS: Sometimes it seems to help to delete "~/.cache/sessions" before suspending, but sometimes it doesn't.

PPS: I remember having fiddled around with saving sessions on logout. My current settings are shown in the screenshot.

silverstar-suspend_resume-issue-20230218 silverstar-suspend_resume-issue-20211117