Suspend not working (immediate resume) on my Thinkpad T14 after updates (starting 2025-08)

Thanks for showing one way to solve such issues, and for reminding me of bluetooth devices.

I actually have two devices trusted (my headphones and a BT keyboard for testing) but not connected, and I’m sure these were turned off.

$ journalctl -u bluetooth

indeed shows no irregularities.


But it gets “curiouser and curiouser”: After leaving the laptop in hibernation after above tests for a few hours, now suddenly suspend seems to work again. Needs a few more tries to be sure, though.

I wonder what’s going on here. Ghosts?

And yes, I did also try a complete shutdown before, waiting a few minutes, and restarting the system, and suspend wouldn’t work.

There’s only two more ideas I have—could that have confused the suspend/resume system?

  • It’s possible I connected the (USB-C) AC charger while it was in suspend mode. I must surely have done that before, and it shouldn’t matter (hopefully).
  • I use the built-in fingerprint reader, and the Arch docs say somewhere one shouldn’t suspend/resume again within 30s. I might have inadvertently done that, but chances are almost nil, since I know about that issue.