I am solving a minor issue with my Ubuntu 20.04. Focal fossa. This might be relevant for all users using a laptop closed aside with an external display. Whenever I shutdown or reboot the computer (laptop) with a closed lid, the computer after new start (or reboot) does not connect to the network (no wifi found) and when I want to restart, reboot, or shut down from the interface menu, it does not react at all. Command-line „reboot“ returns this.
~$ reboot
Failed to reboot system via logind: There's already a shutdown or sleep operation in progress
I must close the lid after loading the Ubuntu interface to avoid any problems.
If I do not close the lid at all, everything is working fine. My logind.conf looks like:
#NAutoVTs=6
#ReserveVT=6
#KillUserProcesses=no
#KillOnlyUsers=
#KillExcludeUsers=root
#InhibitDelayMaxSec=5
#HandlePowerKey=poweroff
#HandleSuspendKey=ignore
#HandleHibernateKey=ignore
#HandleLidSwitch=ignore
#HandleLidSwitchExternalPower=ignore
#HandleLidSwitchDocked=ignore
#PowerKeyIgnoreInhibited=yes
#SuspendKeyIgnoreInhibited=yes
#HibernateKeyIgnoreInhibited=yes
#LidSwitchIgnoreInhibited=yes
#HoldoffTimeoutSec=30s
#IdleAction=ignore
#IdleActionSec=30min
#RuntimeDirectorySize=10%
#RemoveIPC=yes
Laptop:
Ubuntu 20.04.LTS Focal fossa
system Aspire V7-582PG
bus Dazzle_HW
memory 128KiB BIOS
processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4200U CPU @
memory 32KiB L1 cache
memory 256KiB L2 cache
memory 3MiB L3 cache
memory 32KiB L1 cache
memory 6GiB System Memory
memory 4GiB SODIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1600
memory 2GiB SODIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1600
Please, does anyone have suggestions on how to remove this issue?
Thank you in advance!
Petr1 Answer
You appear to have edited /etc/systemd/logind.conf. Specifically the lines:
#HandleSuspendKey=ignore
#HandleHibernateKey=ignore
#HandleLidSwitch=ignore
#HandleLidSwitchExternalPower=ignore
#PowerKeyIgnoreInhibited=yes
#SuspendKeyIgnoreInhibited=yes
#HibernateKeyIgnoreInhibited=yeswhich were originally:
#HandleSuspendKey=suspend
#HandleHibernateKey=hibernate
#HandleLidSwitch=suspend
#HandleLidSwitchExternalPower=suspend
#PowerKeyIgnoreInhibited=no
#SuspendKeyIgnoreInhibited=no
#HibernateKeyIgnoreInhibited=noLines beginning with # show the default settings. When you change a setting you also need to uncomment the line (delete the #) for it to take effect.
Except for that, I think you had the right idea attempting to change HandleLidSwitch and HandleLidSwitchExternalPower to ignore, so uncomment those two.
I would restore everything else back to the defaults.
