f20 - Suspend not working

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 01/20/2014 12:31 PM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 08:02:27PM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> f20 x86-64 on my Lenovo with all the problems I had installing x86_64.
>>
>> Well I **think** suspend was working, and now it barely works.
>>
>> Closing the notebook, does nothing except hose Gnome, which restarts
>> on opening the notebook, and all my apps go into the current
>> workspace (I have tweaked to have 5 static workspaces).  This use to
>> put the notebook into suspend and would come out with no problems
>> for Gnome.
>>
>> There is no suspend function available from the top bar.  There is
>> an extension to add hibernate, but it does not seem to provide
>> suspend.  And anyway, hibernate is broken on this Lenovo.
> To show suspend, you have to hold down the ALT key when the dropdown is
> displayed.
>
> That said, I've had pretty consistent problems with suspend as well on
> my Lenovo T530. It's hit or miss if, after a suspend, the system comes
> back or if instead it shows me the grey screen with the fedora logo that
> you see when booting. If the latter then I have to power off and reboot
> to get my desktop back.

someone on the fedora test list suggested that if this happens to 
restart gnome:  <alt-f2,r>  even though you will not see the alt-f2 
menu, it is there and r will restart it.  The poster said he gets this 
in his testing at times and this is his recovery method.