My computer won't go to sleep under Fedora 30

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Yesterday I wiped two of my computers, a MacBook Air and and dual-graphics MacBook Pro, and I’ve been setting 'em up since then…one issue after another.

Neither of both will go to sleep when I close them, even in Windows they’ll go to sleep but not in Fedora. I’m new to Linux in general so I don’t know how to diagnose but I still tried journalctl -xe > randomfile to get the output after closing every app en closing the lid on one of them and I got:

Oct 03 20:39:00 fedora30.local systemd-logind[1178]: Lid closed.
Oct 03 20:39:00 fedora30.local gsd-color[1663]: failed to set screen _ICC_PROFILE: Failed to open file “/home/username/.local/share/icc/edid-f466f621b5fa04a00800cfa6c258decd.icc”: Permission denied
Oct 03 20:39:01 fedora30.local org.gnome.Shell.desktop[2408]: Window manager warning: Overwriting existing binding of keysym 32 with keysym 32 (keycode b).
Oct 03 20:39:01 fedora30.local org.gnome.Shell.desktop[2408]: Window manager warning: Overwriting existing binding of keysym 33 with keysym 33 (keycode c).
Oct 03 20:39:01 fedora30.local org.gnome.Shell.desktop[2408]: Window manager warning: Overwriting existing binding of keysym 34 with keysym 34 (keycode d).
Oct 03 20:39:01 fedora30.local org.gnome.Shell.desktop[2408]: Window manager warning: Overwriting existing binding of keysym 31 with keysym 31 (keycode a).
Oct 03 20:39:01 fedora30.local org.gnome.Shell.desktop[2408]: Window manager warning: Overwriting existing binding of keysym 39 with keysym 39 (keycode 12).
Oct 03 20:39:01 fedora30.local org.gnome.Shell.desktop[2408]: Window manager warning: Overwriting existing binding of keysym 38 with keysym 38 (keycode 11).
Oct 03 20:39:01 fedora30.local org.gnome.Shell.desktop[2408]: Window manager warning: Overwriting existing binding of keysym 37 with keysym 37 (keycode 10).
Oct 03 20:39:01 fedora30.local org.gnome.Shell.desktop[2408]: Window manager warning: Overwriting existing binding of keysym 35 with keysym 35 (keycode e).
Oct 03 20:39:01 fedora30.local org.gnome.Shell.desktop[2408]: Window manager warning: Overwriting existing binding of keysym 36 with keysym 36 (keycode f).
Oct 03 20:39:09 fedora30.local systemd-logind[1178]: Lid opened.

Obviously it makes little sense to me. I’ve observed the computer runs crazy hot, I’m in a freezing room with a couple of tabs open in Firefox and the fans are at full blast, it was actually worse and casual scrolling through an Amazon.com page was stuttery but after installing the Nvidia drivers it went down just a little. At least it scrolls smoothly now.

Any ideas? Thanks !

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I reinstalled to the same results, here’s the system log: fedora30-system.log

I also found that if I’m using the root account it appears to go to sleep correctly. It stills wakes up easily (it’s a Mac and I can see the Apple logo light up) while connecting/disconnecting the power cable or a USB devices but at least it goes to sleep.

I took this log while logging in to the root account then switching to my domain account while leaving the root account logged in and then coming back for the log. When logged in as my domain account I can’t see the logs even though my domain account is in the visudo file.

Other than the computer must be shut down to close the lid, Fedora runs like a dream. I’ve tried so many distros but I keep coming back to Fedora because it’s my favorite and I have high hopes of making it work. I’m counting the days to Fedora 31 with the Nvidia improvements to install it on my dual-graphics Mac. :slight_smile: :crossed_fingers: