Minisforum MS-A1 Debian 12 sleep crashes and turns hot

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I have a Minisforum MS-A1 with a Ryzen 8700G and 64 GB 5200 MHz RAM.

I mostly run this as a desktop PC and sometimes KVM (not in connection to the issue I’m asking about).

When the device sleeps, either manually or by sleep timer it will on occasion lock up and the chassis gets toasty hot. At this point nothing but a hard reset helps, device is not on the network or in any other way responsive. I’d say this lock/freeze happens around 25 % of the time.

Journalctl does not log any issues as the devices goes to sleep and the next entries are after the hard reset.

Jan 04 00:40:42 min01 systemd-sleep[201673]: Entering sleep state 'suspend'...
Jan 04 00:40:42 min01 systemd[1]: Starting systemd-suspend.service - System Suspend...
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If any other details might be relevant let me know.

I guess not letting it go to sleep might be an option but since I mostly use it as a desktop I think it makes sense to let it suspend.

Other than that it’s vanilla Debian 12 as for the kernel parameters or anything affecting hardware. Secure boot is on. One thing I do is run displayport passthrough over displayport so I could hook up separate cables for this maybe?

uname -r
6.1.0-28-amd64
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If, as you say it’s not on network/ssh & fan is defaulted that sounds like it hung. I’m not sure it would be related to video output connections.

This is quite a new device & video card, especially. I’d at least try a backports kernel.

https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware#Firmware_after_installation
Do you have the amd firmware installed, or any other firmware being reported missing.

There may be some less linux-unfriendly sleep modes possible to set in BIOS - see if there are some options to consider, & related to this, if I were desperate, I might try this script which is referenced in the freedesktop repo from S3 suspend broken on AMD Ryzen Pro 7 5850U (regression in kernel 6.1) (#2357) · Issues · drm / amd · GitLab .

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Thanks, I’ll look into some of these.

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The backports kernel is promising, I’ll see how it fairs in the longer term but there is some hope after two days without issues :slight_smile: