Thinkpad E560 cannot sleep on Ubuntu GNOME 16.04

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Hello fellow Ubuntu users,

I freshly installed Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 on my Lenovo Thinkpad E560. When I close the lid of the notebook, it does not seem suspend whatsoever. The indicator led stays on whereas on Windows it flashes a few times and stays in a breathing state.

After a bit of research, it looks like a few people had a similar issues in which they could not wake up their Thinkpads. The cause of the problem seemed to be a bug with a USB3 driver, but as the posts regarding it are two years in the past, I suspect that these bugs should be fixed by now.

Sadly, I am not too experienced with Linux, so I don't really have any idea on how to debug this problem. Therefore I would appreciate any help

Thanks in advance.

Doing a quick Google search, I found another Thinkpad E560 user from September 2015 lamenting the poor Linux support: "Linux users should avoid the E560, at least until driver support has radically improved." link
It seems the E560 model just isn't as well-supported as most thinkpads are under Linux/Ubuntu. That said, there are some very clever folks on here, maybe one of them can help. Good luck! — , May 01 '16 at 20:13
Possible duplicate of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS cannot suspend / fails on suspending — chaskes, May 01 '16 at 22:41
Welcome to Ask Ubuntu. I saw your answer. Your answer is just a link to another question, which makes it a dupe. Both boil down to Q: I can't suspend/resume, A: use mainline kernel. :) — chaskes, May 02 '16 at 00:30

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

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It looks like said problem was yet again a general bug.

Thanks to this thread, I installed an upstream kernel which solved the problem.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

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answered May 01 '16 at 22:39

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Thinkpad E560 cannot sleep on Ubuntu GNOME 16.04

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