I booted from a Manjaro 24.0.5 Gnome live USB stick. I’m trying to wipe my SSD using the NVME-CLI utility to do a clean install of Manjaro. This requires a suspend to RAM to unlock my SSD. For some reason the Suspend option is missing from the Gnome power menu. At a terminal when I type “sudo -i” followed by “systemctl suspend” I get an error saying “Call to Suspend failed: Access denied”. I am currently the root user. Why can’t I suspend my machine?
It is kind of XY problem. No idea about suspend, but i am pretty sure there are other methods to unfreeze a ssd (cannot help, never done it but read once somewhere), suspend is just the easiest (cause it is a security bug actually). And maybe just format with other tools. Is it soooo critical to absolutely secure erase at firmware level?
The live ISO disables all powersaving features to avoid deadlocks in installation.
Wiping your ssd using nvme-cli - that should not benecessary - and no - it does not require suspend.
I believe you are misunderstanding something.
Likely your disk must not be mounted - but that is a completely different thing.
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