No hibernation, gdbus.error

General system Newbie
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Some minute ago I tried to let my laptop go in hibernation mode.
The screen goes black but when I wake it up I had this error:

gdbus.error:org.freedesktop.login1.sleepverbnotsupported: not enought swap space for hibernation

Now this is my parted command

Model: ATA SAMSUNG MZ7TE256 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 256GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name                          Flags
 1      1049kB  106MB   105MB   fat32        EFI system partition          boot, esp
 2      106MB   123MB   16.8MB               Microsoft reserved partition  msftres
 3      123MB   83.9GB  83.8GB  ntfs         Basic data partition          msftdata
 4      83.9GB  256GB   172GB   ext4         root


Model:  USB DISK (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 8054MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name       Flags
 1      32.8kB  1963MB  1963MB               ISO9660    hidden
 2      1963MB  2066MB  103MB   fat16        Appended2  boot, esp
 3      2066MB  2066MB  307kB                Gap1       hidden, msftdata

I didn’t make a swap partiton, either a swap file, do I need to do something to make the hibernation work or it is a acpi problem?

thank you

2

For hibernation to work you need a swap device, a partition or a file. Please refer to the instructions in the ArchWiki:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Swap

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management/Suspend_and_hibernate#Hibernation

3

It also makes a very big difference if you installed with ext4 or btrfs.

But unless you selected to have it at install, you will have to set it up manually.

I know it hasn’t been updated in years, but I have used hibernator the last few times without issue. - note that it only works with ext4

4

I’ve read that there is a difference between zram and zswap file, if I follow the steps to make a swap file manually as in the arch wiki will i set a zram or zswap? I’d like to work with zswap and take advantage of compression

5

Both zram and zswap make use of compression.

6

There is. Hibernator is likely not for you then.