02-04-2021, 11:11 PM
So how do you normally get it to turn back on when this happens? I may be misreading you but I get the impression this has happened more than once.
I don't know about Arch, but there are only a few distrus that handle standby/sleep modes properly.
Probably what has happened is that you do have the magnet problem: when you close the lid, the OS goes into some kind of standby mode, but then comes back out of that mode as soon as the lid is all the way closed. If you don't have the charger connected, the battery will be depleted. Recovering from a depleted battery seems to be troublesome. I haven't had it happen, but some users have reported that you must charge with a USB-C charger to recover from this.
The first thing I'd try is a normal cold reset: hold the power button for twenty seconds to get the PBP to turn off. (It may be in a state where it's "on" but not giving you any indication). Then wait a few seconds and hold it for one second to turn it back on.
Also, if your eMMC is corrupted, you could be hard locked, as above, but with a non-bootable eMMC which will just hard lock the system again. Try booting from an SD card. Depending on the state of your eMMC, you may have to disable the eMMC to do this.
I don't know about Arch, but there are only a few distrus that handle standby/sleep modes properly.
Probably what has happened is that you do have the magnet problem: when you close the lid, the OS goes into some kind of standby mode, but then comes back out of that mode as soon as the lid is all the way closed. If you don't have the charger connected, the battery will be depleted. Recovering from a depleted battery seems to be troublesome. I haven't had it happen, but some users have reported that you must charge with a USB-C charger to recover from this.
The first thing I'd try is a normal cold reset: hold the power button for twenty seconds to get the PBP to turn off. (It may be in a state where it's "on" but not giving you any indication). Then wait a few seconds and hold it for one second to turn it back on.
Also, if your eMMC is corrupted, you could be hard locked, as above, but with a non-bootable eMMC which will just hard lock the system again. Try booting from an SD card. Depending on the state of your eMMC, you may have to disable the eMMC to do this.
