Comment 20 for bug 1841826

Agree that this is a serious issue. Like EAB, each of our setups remains constant: same laptop, dock, display, etc. This issue continues to recur probably 11 out of 12 startups when docked lid down. Notably, I have almost never seen it when the laptop is running standalone (out of the dock).

Note that I do NOT try to hot dock or undock; these are all full shutdown/cold starts or manual suspend/later resume. And I rarely attempt the suspend/resume. That is only if I've been using the machine stand alone and suspended it, expecting to resume again standalone but instead wind up at my desk in the office.

On the rare occasions when it's docked and doesn't suspend at the login prompt, it will then often throw an error like unable to lock due to application when it would (abnormally) suspend; and then when it reaches the desktop the wifi won't work or the dock's usb mouse won't work or something. Also, on the next restart after that, after suspending and my pressing the dock power again, I will often get a timing error instead of video on the external display. I have to then open the laptop lid in the dock and sometimes can take control to shut down. Other times I have to force power down at that point. Once that happens, I have to take the laptop out of the dock, start it stand alone, shut it fully down, dock it, and try again....

PLEASE fix this. Again: this was NOT an issue until the September 2020 Ubuntu updates to 20.04.1 which I believe also included a kernel update to address a security vulnerability? In any case, this started shortly after that. And yes: this should not be happening in an LTS version.