Bug#945618:
I have to appologize for an error I made when reporting this. It can actually be reproduced in both Arch and Debian. The difference was that I didn't have pulseaudio installed on my Arch system. I am blind and use Orca. If I have Orca playing through pulse, the pc states are not entered in both Arch and Debian with the newer kernels. If pulse is on but Orca is disabled, I can enter the pc states. I am not sure if all sounds playing through pulse cause the pc states to not be entered or if this is specifically an Orca/speech-dispatcher/espeak-ng problem. I had sighted assistance reading powertop with Orca disabled and could only test this one case with no sounds playing (sighted help is limited in my current living situation). The information in my first message about the kernels where this occurs and those in which this does not occur is still accurate. I don't think this matters but I will include that I use the Mate desktop.
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