Wait, on second thought... pm-utils? The wiki [1] suggests s2ram should work out of the box, and I think it has for me the last few times I've wanted to set it up. By default it's handled by systemd these days. Try executing $ systemctl start suspend.target And see if that gives you any better luck. [1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Suspend_and_Hibernate#Suspend_to_RAM On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:58 AM, Emil Lundberg <lundberg.emil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I can't give you any concrete advice yet, but what's the difference > between the problematic system and the others (architecture, > GUI/Desktop Environment, login manager etc)? > > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:43 AM, <nmset@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Resume from suspend in RAM fails even though I have followed the Arch Wiki >> recommendations, with latest 3.12.7 kernel (and before). The 'resume' hook has >> been added for mkinitcpio and the machine goes to suspend from the command >> line (pm-suspend) with no GUI enabled. >> >> All keyboard and mouse lights are off and the screen is just black with no >> backlight. I can't even login through SSH and can't get any PM debug info. >> >> It happens on one particular machine only and I'm quite stuck with it. >> >> Any suggestions to solve this ? I can provide other relevent information if >> required. >> >> Thanks. >> >> >>