Re: [gpm] gnome-power-manager failing to suspend

["David Durrleman" <dualmoo gmail com>]

On Dec 5, 2007 4:15 PM, David Durrleman <dualmoo gmail com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 5, 2007 8:52 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 03:46 +0100, David Durrleman wrote:
> > > When I left click the gnome-power-manager icon and select suspend,
> > > nothing happens and a notification immediately appears saying "Your
> > > computer failed to suspend".
> >
> > What does:
> >
> > dbus-send --system --print-reply \
> > --dest=org.freedesktop.Hal /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer \
> > org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement.Suspend int32:0
>
> As a normal user, it does nothing and errors out:
>
> Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: A security policy in
> place prevents this sender from sending this message to this
> recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message had
> interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement" member
> "Suspend" error name "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.Hal")

Ok, so I found out a solution to my problem: I needed to get myself in
the plugdev group and to restart dbus. Would it be possible for
gnome-power-manager to report such errors when in verbose mode?
Because without proper error reporting, I really couldn't have guessed
it, and I guess that problems of the same kind could happen to other
users.

Cheers,

-- 
David