Laptop hibernate on critical battery

asked 2016-02-20 04:52:09 -0500

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updated 2016-05-31 02:53:12 -0500

Hi, what's the best way to make my laptop hibernate instead of powering it off when battery is critically low in Fedora 23? I used gsettings previously (f20) but now it seem not to be an available option to set, look:

[claudio@f23x8664 ~]$ gsettings list-keys org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power
idle-brightness
power-button-action
priority
idle-dim
sleep-inactive-ac-type
sleep-inactive-battery-timeout
sleep-inactive-battery-type
sleep-inactive-ac-timeout
ambient-enabled
active

Maybe it could be possible editing /etc/UPower/UPower.conf. At the end of the file I read:

[...]
# The action to take when "TimeAction" or "PercentageAction" above has been
# reached for the batteries (UPS or laptop batteries) supplying the computer
#
# Possible values are:
# PowerOff
# Hibernate
# HybridSleep
#
# If HybridSleep isn't available, Hibernate will be used
# If Hibernate isn't available, PowerOff will be used
CriticalPowerAction=HybridSleep

But it does not honor neither HybridSleep nor Hibernate.

Any idea how to test it?

Thanks, Claudio

answered 2016-03-12 04:27:24 -0500

deajan
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updated 2016-03-13 14:23:16 -0500

Hello,

First of all, your swap partition should be at least the size of your memory so your system can be suspended to disk. Then, you need to add a resume=/dev/mapper/swap or resume=UUID=xxxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx boot command line so your system knows where to load data from. The UUID can be obtained with: blkid | grep swap

The command line needs to be added in /etc/default/grub like GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="resume=UUID=xxxxxxx-xxxx-xxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx"

You also need to regenerate your grub.cfg file with grub2-mkconfig > /etc/grub-efi.cfg (replace grub-efi with grub if you don't use UEFI boot)

After this, reboot and try the hibernation with: systemctl hibernate

Last, edit /etc/UPower/UPower.conf

UsePercentageForPolicy=true PercentageLow=15 PercentageCritical=8 PercentageAction=5

(adjust values to your needs)

and reload upower: systemctl reload upower

Oh, if systemctl hibernate works but echo disk > /sys/power/state fails, you can try bypassing platform specific code by using echo shutdown > /sys/power/disk This can be rendered permanent by creating a /etc/systemd/sleep.conf file containing: HibernateMode=shutdown HibernateState=disk

Regards, Ozy.

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Where should i add this resume=/dev/mapper/swap and how i can regenerate my grub.cfg file ?

ibrahim132 ( 2016-04-10 08:59:31 -0500 )edit

Instructions for regenerating grub.cfg are here : https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/...AdministratorsGuide/sec-CustomizingtheGRUB2Configuration_File.html

acyclik ( 2017-05-14 22:08:57 -0500 )edit

If your swap isn't big enough, instructions for growing the swap partition are here : https://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.... If you need to make space by shrinking your home volume (eg. by 8Gb), reboot with "single" in the kernel boot parameters, unmount /home, then run "lvresize -r -L -8G /dev/fedora/home"

acyclik ( 2017-05-14 22:14:48 -0500 )edit

Proper (and fresh) link to instructions for plying with grub, for future reference.

ozeszty ( 2017-11-20 16:35:50 -0500 )edit

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