On Sat, Oct 2, 2021 at 4:46 PM Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote:
> Kenneth Parker wrote: > > HP Elitedesk 705 G1. Bullseye XFCE. > > > > I had a timeout set like usual. Before, I could jiggle the Mouse and > press > > the Shift Key and it would wake up, but not today. > > > > Fortunately, I was able to power up a Laptop, and SSH into the Elitedesk, > > and tell it to Shutdown cleanly. (But, obviously not everyone has this > > option). > > > > (Until I can figure this out, I changed the Power settings to "Never" > turn > > off the Monitor). > > > > This is the sort of thing which is often caused by a machine > being told to go to sleep -- i.e. suspend to ram, suspend to > disk -- in some way which doesn't let it wake up the video card > again. > > A simple DPMS power off / power on ought to work -- from X, try > > xset +dpms > xset dpms suspend > The xset command (version 1.2.4) gave "xset: unknown option suspend". > > and wait a moment. It should come back when you tap a key, > possibly if you wiggle a mouse. > One note: Even though I was unable to wake up the Display, I *was* able to ssh in from my Laptop, so the computer itself wasn't "Suspended". (Also, I never enable "system sleep mode" on a Desktop computer, since I enjoy listening to Classical Music while the Display may be off. If I would be inclined to [i.e. leave my Apartment], I cleanly shutdown the system). > > If it doesn't, that's valuable info too. > > Look in logs to see if anything interesting happened before you > got to ssh in. > I am still working to understand these Logs. I copied /var/log/messages to my Home Directory and, since it is huge, used the split command. Nothing jumped out. Many thanks! Kenneth Parker
