Is it usual that installing and removing Nvidia proprietary driver makes laptop unable to sleep?

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I installed proprietary Nvidia graphics drivers and used them for a while, but eventually uninstalled them. Since then, my laptop hasn’t been able to enter sleep/suspend. When prompted to sleep, it only locks the screen. I had a look in the journals, and found this error:

fedora systemd-logind[1180]: Error during inhibitor-delayed operation (already returned success to client): Unit nvidia-resume.service not found.

I think the driver uninstallation failed to clean one of the systemd service directories. Looked around for a bit, and found the culprit. Fixed it with:

sudo rm /etc/systemd/system/systemd-suspend.service.requires/nvidia-resume.service

Now the laptop suspends as it should :slight_smile:

Has anyone else experienced this?

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You probably have installed the nvidia driver from the .run installer.
You will have to report this issue to nvidia via nvidia-bug-report.sh tool.

The recommended way is to install the driver is to use rpmfusion which doesn’t exhibit the issue. (it also has the nvidia-bug-report.sh tool).

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I should have mentioned it, I installed proprietary nvidia driver from rpmfusion repo.