How do I set up hibernate and sleep to work correctly?

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So for hibernation your swap file or partition should be at least 6gb but I would go with 7 or 8 gb to be on the safe side. Also in case your swap is in use and is already holding data. If you have the hard drive space a larger swap is a good thing IMHO on Linux.

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Thanks. I did yet another fresh install because I once again broke my whole system trying to fix the swap sizeā€¦ lol. This time Iā€™m just going to use sleep because it seems like hibernate is not boding well.

I have been taking it slow implementing certain things into the computer that I normally would, just to see if one of those things is causing the freezes. Iā€™ve been using this fresh install for about a day now, and it seems to be working consistently with the sleep function.

These are my theories for when it starts breaking, and my solutions for figuring it out:

  • It is possible that when I use hibernate, that is what is causing sleep and hibernate to stop working, so I could just not use hibernate at all, even though I like it (oof).
  • Maybe begins freezeing when I update the system, so Iā€™ll wait just a bit until I update the OS and see if that makes it stop working. If that does indeed make it freeze when I put the system to sleep, then Iā€™ll try to switch to Rock instead of Rome.
  • It kinda seems like it stops working shortly after I bind a keyboard shortcut to make the system sleep/hibernate, so Iā€™ll wait a while to set this up, and see if this causes it to freeze. If that does make it stop working, Iā€™ll just avoid using a shortcut to put the PC to sleep, even though I donā€™t understand why this would cause an issue.

Anyways, those are my ideas for how to identify the issue.

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Update:

  • Ever since the last time I did a fresh install, I have only used the sleep function and not hibernate. It has been working perfectly.
  • I have set a shortcut for sleep, and this has not been making it freeze.
  • I have not yet updated the system to the most recent update.

Soon, I will try to update the system, and see if that starts to make the computer freeze when I sleep it. My suspicion is that it was the hibernate function that was messing everything up. Iā€™ll post again once I determine whether that it true.

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Final Update

  • I have entirely updated the system, and the sleep function is working perfectly fine - my shortcut for it also has not caused any problems. Therefore, it must have been hibernate that caused everything to break in the past.
  • In conclusion, then, I guess hibernate is a no-go, at least for me, on my hardware.

Does anyone know how to take the hibernate function off of the menus on the OS, so that I donā€™t use it by accident and mess everything up again?

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