Hi all! I’d run into an oddity, have seen some partially related topics, USB-Ethernet Udev TLP Upowerd, but nothing really included disabling this behavior.
Thought I’d share my progress, if someone runs into something similar:
I run a Manjaro Gnome minimal installation as a workstation for software development. Most of the time I use a lightweight laptop as a thin-client and connect to the workstation via SSH and use NeoVim on my workstation/server. This allows me to work with substantial performance everywhere I go, without having noticeable latency.
The Motherboard that I’m Using for the machine is an Gigabyte Aorus B550m Pro-P rev1. Since there are lots of issues with Gigabyte regarding the RLTK 2.5 gbit Lan controller, I was forced to use an 1gbit USB-Ethernet adapter.
The issue:
When I’m connected to the machine via SSH, at some point the PSU toggles off/on (takes 1 sec). This happens after a certain interval. After that the SSH session still (kinda) lives, the thing you’ll notice is that the terminal freezes on the client machine. It will take approx 2 to 5 minutes to continue what you where doing.
The behavior doesn’t care if there are user processes running. Even during compiling, or other heavy workloads. So it can be a bit annoying 
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What I did First:
[[HowTo] Disable / Turn off Hibernate completely!] -
Secondly, removed TLP
The reason I removed TLP: After finding the error message below and reading the TLP documentation, I don’t necessarily need this type of power management on this machine.
/usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep/tlp failed with exit status 1.
This, I thought, disabled the behavior. And didn’t occur for a couple of days. But as I’m writing this, sitting in the room next of the machine, I hear the power supply toggle.
So, I was wondering what triggered this:
journalctl -n 200 --no-pager mei 17 20:30:51 HVSR gnome-shell[744]: pushModal: invocation of begin_modal failed mei 17 20:30:51 HVSR gnome-shell[744]: pushModal: invocation of begin_modal failed mei 17 20:30:51 HVSR gnome-shell[744]: error: Unable to lock: Lock was blocked by an application // 15 min timed trigger mei 17 20:45:51 HVSR NetworkManager[573]: <info> manager: sleep: sleep requested (sleeping: no enabled: yes) mei 17 20:45:51 HVSR NetworkManager[573]: <info> device (wlp4s0): state change: unavailable -> unmanaged (reason 'sleeping', sys-iface-state: 'managed') mei 17 20:45:51 HVSR ModemManager[565]: <info> system is about to suspend mei 17 20:45:51 HVSR NetworkManager[573]: <info> device (wlp4s0): set-hw-addr: reset MAC address to xxxx (unmanage) mei 17 20:45:51 HVSR NetworkManager[573]: <info> manager: NetworkManager state is now ASLEEP mei 17 20:45:51 HVSR gnome-shell[744]: pushModal: invocation of begin_modal failed mei 17 20:45:51 HVSR gnome-shell[744]: pushModal: invocation of begin_modal failed mei 17 20:45:51 HVSR gnome-shell[744]: error: Unable to lock: Lock was blocked by an application mei 17 20:45:56 HVSR systemd-logind[531]: Delay lock is active (UID 120/gdm, PID 744/gnome-shell) but inhibitor timeout is reached. // reached target mei 17 20:45:56 HVSR systemd[1]: Reached target Sleep. mei 17 20:45:56 HVSR systemd[1]: Starting Suspend... mei 17 20:45:56 HVSR systemd-sleep[1442]: Suspending system... mei 17 20:45:56 HVSR kernel: PM: suspend entry (deep) mei 17 20:45:56 HVSR kernel: Filesystems sync: 0.005 seconds // etc
Check status of
systemctl status sleep.target ● sleep.target - Sleep Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/sleep.target; static) Active: inactive (dead) Docs: man:systemd.special(7) mei 17 20:25:47 HVSR systemd[1]: Reached target Sleep. mei 17 20:25:51 HVSR systemd[1]: Stopped target Sleep. mei 17 20:45:56 HVSR systemd[1]: Reached target Sleep. mei 17 20:46:01 HVSR systemd[1]: Stopped target Sleep. mei 17 21:06:06 HVSR systemd[1]: Reached target Sleep. mei 17 21:06:11 HVSR systemd[1]: Stopped target Sleep. mei 17 21:26:16 HVSR systemd[1]: Reached target Sleep. mei 17 21:26:21 HVSR systemd[1]: Stopped target Sleep.
Eventually masking systemd.sleep* disables this behavior
sudo systemctl mask sleep.target suspend.target hibernate.target hybrid-sleep.target systemctl status sleep.target ● sleep.target Loaded: masked (Reason: Unit sleep.target is masked.) Active: inactive (dead)
Still
I’m not sure of if USB Net device registration @ udev causes a kind of innactivity flag to the system. And would it solve the problem if a PCI device is used (or symlink as).
Also, not sure if its a Gnome related, I haven’t tested it on KDE & XFCE.
TLDR, steps how I disabled this behavior:
--super user do pacman -R tlp --remove tlp mkinitcpio -p --to be certain update-grub --ref new images reboot --symlink targets to null systemctl mask sleep.target suspend.target hibernate.target hybrid-sleep.target --bob is your uncle
Feel free to correct me!
inxi:
System: Kernel: 5.11.18-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0 parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.11-x86_64 root=UUID=XXXX rw udev.log_priority=2 Console: tty pts/0 DM: GDM 40.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: B550M AORUS PRO-P v: x.x serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: F13c date: 02/17/2021 Memory: RAM: total: 31.36 GiB used: 1015.1 MiB (3.2%) RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. CPU: Info: 8-Core model: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 3 family: 19 (25) model-id: 21 (33) stepping: 0 microcode: A201009 cache: L2: 4 MiB bogomips: 121432 Speed: 2871 MHz min/max: 2200/3800 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2871 2: 3589 3: 2868 4: 2870 5: 2864 6: 2871 7: 2922 8: 2866 9: 2876 10: 2870 11: 2871 12: 2867 13: 2870 14: 2868 15: 3274 16: 3588 Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm adx aes aperfmperf apic arat avic avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bpext cat_l3 cdp_l3 clflush clflushopt clwb clzero cmov cmp_legacy constant_tsc cpb cpuid cqm cqm_llc cqm_mbm_local cqm_mbm_total cqm_occup_llc cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de decodeassists erms extapic extd_apicid f16c flushbyasid fma fpu fsgsbase fsrm fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibpb ibrs ibs invpcid irperf lahf_lm lbrv lm mba mca mce misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor movbe msr mtrr mwaitx nonstop_tsc nopl npt nrip_save nx ospke osvw overflow_recov pae pat pausefilter pclmulqdq pdpe1gb perfctr_core perfctr_llc perfctr_nb pfthreshold pge pku pni popcnt pse pse36 rdpid rdpru rdrand rdseed rdt_a rdtscp rep_good sep sha_ni skinit smap smca smep ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 stibp succor svm svm_lock syscall tce topoext tsc tsc_scale umip v_vmsave_vmload vaes vgif vmcb_clean vme vmmcall vpclmulqdq wbnoinvd wdt xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveerptr xsaveopt xsaves Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected Type: l1tf status: Not affected Type: mds status: Not affected Type: meltdown status: Not affected Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: always-on, RSB filling Type: srbds status: Not affected Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA GP102 [GeForce GTX 1080 Ti] driver: nvidia v: 460.73.01 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 06:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1b06 class-ID: 0300 Display: server: X.org 1.20.11 compositor: gnome-shell driver: loaded: nvidia tty: 237x58 Message: Advanced graphics data unavailable in console. Try -G --display Audio: Device-1: NVIDIA GP102 HDMI Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 06:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10ef class-ID: 0403 Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 08:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487 class-ID: 0403 Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.11.18-1-MANJARO running: yes Sound Server-2: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.26 running: no Network: Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2723 class-ID: 0280 IF: wlp4s0 state: down mac: <filter> Device-2: TP-Link UE300 10/100/1000 LAN (ethernet mode) [Realtek RTL8153] type: USB driver: r8152 bus-ID: 4-3:2 chip-ID: 2357:0601 class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter> IF: enp8s0f3u3 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global broadcast: <filter> IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link IF-ID-1: virbr0 state: down mac: <filter> IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter> WAN IP: <filter> USB: Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 10 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 Device-1: 1-9:2 info: Integrated Express ITE Device type: HID driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 048d:5702 class-ID: 0300 Hub-2: 1-10:3 info: Genesys Logic Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 05e3:0608 class-ID: 0900 Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 Hub-4: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 Hub-5: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 Device-1: 4-3:2 info: TP-Link UE300 10/100/1000 LAN (ethernet mode) [Realtek RTL8153] type: Network driver: r8152 interfaces: 1 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s power: 256mA chip-ID: 2357:0601 class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter> Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 33.4 C mobo: 16.8 C Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A Info: Processes: 307 Uptime: 45m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 247 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 Packages: pacman: 1100 lib: 307 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8 running-in: tty pts/0 (SSH) inxi: 3.3.04
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