i hibernated my pc and now it boots into a blank screen

2026-06-04 02:45 UTC

yea. Voidlinux, I hibernated with “ZZZ”, now managed to boot to it from grub from another distro butt none of the services work I think and I can’t start a DE or start xorg or whatever. I tried removing the swap or turning it off ot whatrver and after I did swapoff it did seem to go away but then I had the samr problem and when I booted the same way the swap partition was on. should i delete the swap partition and make another one later or…? pls help thanks a lot!

Replies (7)

@ButteredBread@sh.itjust.works 2026-06-04 02:46

oh almost forgot to mention I disconected my pc while it was hibernating so well you know.

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@Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 2026-06-04 02:52

If you can access it just pull.your personal files and reinstall. Its not worth the chase unless you have a ton of irreplaceable shit on there.

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@wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 2026-06-04 03:09

Oddly, Void has been the first distro for me where it felt like hibernation just worked out of the box. Sorry though, I have no suggestions.

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@brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-06-04 04:17

I don’t know Voidlinux but am curious, what GPU are you using? And is your Linux DE using Wayland or X? Nvidia GPU drivers are notorious for having issues with suspend/hibernate/resume. If it’s Nvidia you could try tinkering with enabling/disabling the driver options or the suspend/hibernate/resume services. These should give you some hints: wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Wayland_con… gist.github.com/…/375f14eaa17f88756b4bdbbebbcfd02… Unfortunately I don’t know what you’d do exactly to recover from a failed hibernate - the thing with hibernate is that the RAM of the running OS was saved to disk so even turning it off completely isn’t going to solve that, the whole point of hibernate is to be able to power off completely after all. When you get your system back up you should do some light testing with standby, not hibernate, just to see if there’s issues. Or do what I do and never standby/hibernate :P

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@db2@lemmy.world 2026-06-04 04:59

sudo mkfs.swap /dev/[swap device here>]

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@TheFrogThatFlies@lemmy.world 2026-06-04 08:49

I think there is something in grub’s kernel options that tells it where to look for the location of the hibernate image. So you could simply edit grub during boot and remove that setting.

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@MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2026-06-04 10:05

wiki.archlinux.org/title/…/Suspend_and_hibernate

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