Unresponsive Login Window After Sleep

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I just had a weird experience. I've installed Ubuntu MATE 24.10 on an older Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 11e and have been quite pleased with it. Until a day or so ago when I wanted to close the lid, I would Suspend the system via system (upper rightmost) menu. But, since it's a laptop, I figured that it would behave as laptops do when the lid is simply closed while the system is active. Yes, it does.

However, this time when I opened the lid up and the system came back to life, it presented me with a login screen that would not accept any keyboard input. The touchscreen responded (but no keyboard) and it would recognize when the CAPS LOCK key was pressed, but even double-tapping the entry field with my fingers would highlight it, but would not accept any input. My only recourse was to power crash the machine and reboot. Yeah, that's not the most kosher way of recycling, but it was all that was available to me.

It's back and running again, but I'm now thinking it's best to suspend before closing the lid.

I'm not asking for help, but feedback. Is this a known issue, or just an oddity?

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I've had issues with my ordinary laptop (ASUS) not waking up properly. It's rare, but it does happen. Never figured out why. I don't think this is the same issue, but it's not uncommon for there to be problems with waking back up, e.g. One Way to Fix Freezing Upon Resume from Suspend

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That has happened to me since at least 20.04LTS. Since then I have used a manual lock on the PC that is always on and shut down my laptop after use. It takes less than 30 seconds to boot, so not a big deal to ensure security and the input of the password. I had asked for help previously about the lack of keyboard on resume, but never got a helping response. I have not tried it on 24.04 LTS as I just assumed it is still an issue and your question tells me it is.

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Thank you for confirming my experience. It does not appear hardware related either, as I had my laptop sitting idle for a while and it went to sleep. I pressed a key to wake it and was greeted with the same everything-but-the-keyboard login panel.

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