Putting together new debian freedombox server

Check a couple things before you rearrange the furniture.

When you installed FreedomBox on Debian did you also install a desktop environment? If so there is a support thread on this where Gnome was putting the FreedomBox to sleep.

If you did not install a desktop environment, check the service targets in Cockpit. Go to Services and select the Targets tab.

Here’s hibernate. Use the search field in the targets tab:

Here’s sleep:

You’ll want to “mask” these services if they are active so they don’t trigger. Here’s what Google says about that:


You can mask these from Cockpit using the three dots menu in the service target…
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(my browser doesn’t render that very well - but there’s a menu with Start, Mask, Pin unit)

If that’s not it, then I’d hook up the keyboard and monitor and look if there are BIOS settings for this.