Re: F44 LiveOS fades to black and goes catatonic

On 3 Aug 2026 at 18:50, Michael Hennebry wrote:

Date sent:      	Mon, 3 Aug 2026 18:50:07 -0500 (CDT)
From:           	Michael Hennebry 
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To:             	fedora <[email protected]>
Subject:        	F44 LiveOS fades to black and goes catatonic
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> I spend rather a lot of my computer time staring
> at the screen and deciding what to do next.
> During one such session, I got a popup message,
> presumably warning me about what happened next.
> While deciding what to do about the message,
> the screen faded to black and nothing I did
> with the keyboard or mouse had any effect.

Might be a change they made to Fedora Sleep defaults.
The first lines are commented out in original, but I remove the # to 
turn them off.

cat /etc/systemd/sleep.conf 
#  This file is part of systemd.
#
#  systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it 
under the
#  terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by 
the Free
#  Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at 
your option)
#  any later version.
#
# Entries in this file show the compile time defaults. Local 
configuration
# should be created by either modifying this file, or by creating 
"drop-ins" in
# the sleep.conf.d/ subdirectory. The latter is generally 
recommended.
# Defaults can be restored by simply deleting this file and all 
drop-ins.
#
# See systemd-sleep.conf(5) for details.

[Sleep]
AllowSuspend=no
AllowHibernation=no
AllowSuspendThenHibernate=no
AllowHybridSleep=no
#SuspendMode=
#SuspendState=mem standby freeze
#HibernateMode=platform shutdown
#HibernateState=disk
#HybridSleepMode=suspend platform shutdown
#HybridSleepState=disk
#HibernateDelaySec=
#SuspendEstimationSec=60min



> 
> How do I make F40 LiveOS wake
> up and smell the adrenaline?
> 
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