Re: F44 LiveOS fades to black and goes catatonic

Samuel Sieb <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 8/4/26 3:02 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Aug 2026, Tim via users wrote:
> 
>> Samuel Sieb:
>>>> Press the power button.
>>
>> Michael Hennebry:
>>> I don't want to reboot.
>>> Google sent me to the same advice.
>>> In the past, all I've been able to do is
>>> press once to turn it off and again to boot.
>>
>> Usually, when the PC has gone to sleep, hibernate, suspend, etc, the
>> hardware will have shut the power off after it went down.  Pressing the
>> power button will start up the machine, and it should wake up and
>> resume, not cold boot.
>>
>> If you get a cold boot when expecting it to just wake up, then you have
>> to delve in what went wrong when it went to sleep.
> 
> If I push the power button briefly,
> what I think is the hard drive light blinks.
> The power light, if that is what it is, is not affected.
> The hard drive light blinks brighter.

I was going to suggest you check the journal, but this is a live boot, 
so there's no persistent journal.  Just disable the sleeping.  If you 
want to investigate this, you need to use an installed system.

>  From memory, pushing long enough, I hear shutdown noises.
> Pushing again, even briefly, causes booting.
Yes, if you hold the power button it will shut the power off.  And after 
that, pressing the power button again will of course turn it back on.

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