Laptop doesn't suspend when closing the lid

**paperos** · December 5th, 2019

Hello,
I have a fresh Ubuntu 18.04 LTS install on a brand new Lenovo IdeaPad 330 laptop. Everything works perfectly, except for one thing: when closing the lid, nothing happens. It isn't the problem with suspending itself (it works fine with pressing ALT button and clicking the power icon), what I discovered is that Ubuntu recognizes the laptop lid state always open. However, when I suspend it this way (ALT+click pwr icon), close the lid, then open, it wakes up automatically - no problem with the hardware I guess.

Code:

while true; do sleep 1; cat /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID0/state ; done

Running the script above, closing and opening the lid shows the state "Open" with every measurement, no matter if the lid is open or closed.
Tried to edit /etc/systemd/logind.conf, but it doesn't do anything, because the system thinks that lid is open all the time.

I have no clue what to do now, I need some help

Thank you,
Pat

**gnusci** · December 6th, 2019

Can you post the output of:

$ uname -a
$ lsb_release -a

**SeijiSensei** · December 6th, 2019

Have you checked the options in Power settings? What do you have as the setting for what to do when the lid is closed?

**paperos** · December 7th, 2019

Code:

uname -a
Linux joanna-Lenovo-ideapad-330-15ICH 5.0.0-37-generic #40~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Nov 14 12:06:39 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Code:

lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:    Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
Release:    18.04
Codename:    bionic

There's no options in preferences for the lid, only for the power button. I read somewhere it was removed because of a bug that caused problems when connecting external monitor. However I installed the Tweak Tool and there is indeed an option to suspend when lid is closed and it's set to "on".