Symptoms-
KDE and Gnome (X11): OS suspends/sleeps properly, but resumes/wakes to a blank screen with just a cursor showing. In Gnome, after about 30 secs the desktop will appear and operations can be performed normally. In KDE, the desktop never recovers, and CTRL-ALT-ESC is needed to open the login screen.
Gnome (Wayland): OS will not suspend/sleep. The screen goes blank but the PC remains awake. CTRL-ALT-ESC will recover the desktop.
KDE (Wayland): Did not attempt to verify/replicate behavior in KDE using Wayland.
Suspend/sleep functioned properly prior to the update (X11, both Gnome & KDE).
UPDATE: The following is what I have done to address the suspend/sleep issue I am seeing in Manjaro KDE and Gnome after applying the March 2025 update.
What didn’t work:
Upgrading/downrev’ing the kernel (a long shot)
Masking/disabling Plymouth (another long shot)
What does “work”:
Restoring a previous system image, and then, before applying the Mar '25 update, hold back all nvidia packages upgrading from 550.144.03.x to 570.133.07.x (what are the risks of doing this?).
Apply the entire Mar '25 update but don’t use/disable/mask suspend afterwards (impractical at best).
Remove and replace the nvidia proprietary driver with the open source driver (obvious but not desirable as the open source driver lacks the performance of the proprietary driver).
Disable automatic update checking in Package Manager and wait until the issue is acknowledged and fixed (disabling automatic updates prevents Package Manager from popping up a message stating that updates are available).
Apply the entire update, plus include a .conf file in /etc/modprobe.d that has one of the two following lines:
options nvidia_modeset vblank_sem_control=0 (works in X11 only, leaving Wayland unaffected)
OR…
options nvidia NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=0 (works in X11 AND disables Wayland as a login option)
The first option in “5” above is how I chose to (temporarily) address the Mar '25 suspend issue I am experiencing in both KDE and Gnome. (I am using X11 solely and have had no issues with suspend since.)
NOTE TO THE MODERATOR: I have inxi and journal files if still needed, however I am unsure of the steps for embedding them in this post. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
One final update 31-March-2025:
A fresh install of KDE using nVidia 550.xx revealed no issues with suspend/resume. However, after performing an update, which includes the nVidia 570.xx driver, the issue of the PC resuming from suspend to a blank screen (with only a cursor) resurfaced (X11). No other changes were made to the fresh installation other than performing the update.
Also noticed after the update: moving the mouse while streaming fast action sports introduces noticeable stutter in the image. This was not an issue with the nVidia 550.xx driver.
I will be moving this topic to the nVidia forum, as it seems clear this is not an issue with Manjaro per se.
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There are a few notices of the same error in the announce thread.
I also suffer this problem. I have tried kernels 6.13 and 6.12 (also fallback) and both X11 and Wayland servers with KDE Plasma. I also tried removing the nvidia_drm.modeset=1 kernel parameter I had before. In all cases and combinations I get the black screen with a cursor when resuming after suspend.
With X11 I get the following errors in journal logs:
maalis 28 21:12:36 pc plasmashell[1239]: QRhiGles2: Context is lost.
maalis 28 21:12:36 pc plasmashell[1239]: Graphics device lost, cleaning up scenegraph and releasing RHI
And with Wayland:
maalis 28 21:16:22 pc kwin_wayland[1146]: kwin_tabbox: Could not load window switcher package "org.kde.breeze.desktop" . Falling back to default
maalis 28 21:16:22 pc kwin_wayland[1146]: kwin_scene_opengl: 0x502: GL_INVALID_OPERATION error generated.
maalis 28 21:16:22 pc kwin_wayland[1146]: kwin_scene_opengl: 0x502: GL_INVALID_OPERATION error generated.
What I found interesting though is that I also tried switching to the Nvidia open drivers (linux613-nvidia-open) and I still get the same problem. So I don’t know If there are something else that can be affecting here.
My inxi just for completeness (I have filter out some non related parts, like list of repos):
i put my pc to sleep,at wake up i got a black screen with a mouse cursor but i could still type my password,but after logging in,every thing was performing badly,things would get stuck like clicking on icons etc.
i needed to reboot.
Managed to “fix” suspend/resume by removing “video-nvidia” (570.xx driver) and replacing it with “video-nvidia-470xx” via the “Manjaro Settings Manager”. The only caveat: Wayland is no longer available.