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I have a HP15 r007TX laptop with Debian 8 (Jessie) installed.

Whenever I close the lid and then reopen, the laptop stops working. It get's stuck showing a blank screen. From there nothing happens and I have to hard reboot it.

I even changed the setting to do nothing when laptop lid is closed and still have the issue.

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  • Unfortunate this will be difficult to diagnose without more details. Which window manager?
    – slm ♦
    May 3, 2015 at 14:11
  • A small comment from my experience. Your laptop hasn't stopped working, only the screen. The process of sending a laptop to sleep and then waking it up is quite complex and a common glitch is that upon reactivating the screen it gets messed up. What I do sometimes is close the lid again, wait a moment, and then reopen it. Then the screen returns to normal again (sometimes after a few tries!). Please do not take my comment as a solution. Read some more about this. Your software, video card, drivers are all relevant so provide more information about your system.
    – undostres
    May 3, 2015 at 15:23
  • @slm wmctrl -m gave Gnome Shell as the window manager..
    – Anupam Basak
    May 3, 2015 at 15:27
  • @undostres any solution to this??
    – Anupam Basak
    May 3, 2015 at 15:29
  • I've had tons of trouble with Debian Jessie and Stretch doing this on Mac Book Air and multiple versions of the Dell XPS 13. It makes Debian extremely unreliable.
    – Jeff Burdges
    Feb 7, 2016 at 2:55

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Reset to default
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To disable the Lid Switch:

  1. Open the file /etc/systemd/logind.conf as root.

  2. Find this: HandleLidSwitch

  3. If it's commented, uncomment and change the value to ignore. The line after editing should be:

    HandleLidSwitch=ignore

  4. Restart computer and your problem should be gone. Or better restart logind service:

    sudo service systemd-logind restart

(Source)

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  • Might want to mention, that this is because your laptop has a problem with suspension (could be suspend to disk or suspend to RAM). At least that's what I read from the related link. However my laptop doesn't suspend, and the screen is still blank occasionally after reopening.
    – CMCDragonkai
    Jul 3, 2016 at 10:45
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    This did not work for me. The service command made my screen go black immediately.
    – luther
    Mar 18, 2017 at 1:04
  • This fixed the issue of going into standby for me on Debian 9.5. I had disabled lid close actions in both regular system settings and in gnome-control-center, but after plugging in and out a secondary screen, it enabled itself, even though "perform lid closed action even with external monitors attached" was off as well.
    – Fabian Röling
    Sep 23, 2018 at 9:11
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    It's funny that a 3 year old thread is still helpful.. XD
    – Anupam Basak
    Sep 24, 2018 at 13:20
  • There's also an additional setting in screensaver->settings->lock settings.
    – Fabian Röling
    Feb 1, 2019 at 21:37
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Do a search search under "power". Go to Power Management. Look for "when the lid is closed".

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You can try installing laptop-mode-tools if you haven't done so before.

I had the similar issues with my MBR.

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