following that article, results....
dave@Zorin-E203MA:~$ sudo journalctl | grep "PM: suspend" | tail -2
[sudo] password for dave: #PleaseFixThis#
Sep 16 10:47:36 Zorin-E203MA kernel: PM: suspend entry (deep)
Sep 22 07:58:04 Zorin-E203MA kernel: PM: suspend entry (deep)
dave@Zorin-E203MA:~$
dave@Zorin-E203MA:~$
dave@Zorin-E203MA:~$ cat /sys/power/mem_sleep
s2idle [deep]
dave@Zorin-E203MA:~$
The above shows that [deep] is the default, which is what it should be but it's still not behaving correctly.
I then opened the GRUB_CMDLINE...thingy and saw
It had only "quiet splash" listed so I did expand it to read the as the replacement version. Then as directed I regenerated my grub config.
I'm about to test it out so I'm going to post this page as is so I don't lose my steps above.
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And back. It didn't work.
My laptop no longer shuts down but instead hangs in some pergatory none responsiveness even though its still on (the light showing its alive is on). I didn't respond to waking (mouse wiggle/keyboard pressing etc...) so I was forced to hard reset the thing. I'm going to revert that GRUB file back to what it was before.
I also noticed that I had some more suggestions and will look at those.