Re: [gpm] hal failed to suspend

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

Sorry for the delay, been a busy week.

On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 19:47 -0500, dennis wavomba wrote:
> I'm acquainting myself with gnome-power-manager. The gconf keys for
> suspend and hibernate are set to TRUE and all other functions of g-p-m
> seem to work. However, whenever I click on hibernate (or suspend) from
> the panel applet (or from gnome's shutdown menu), I get a hal error
> popup that says "Hal failed to Hibernate/Suspend please see the FAQ".
> Also, I'm running a kernel that supports suspend2 and can hibernate
> using the command line via "sudo hibernate" which works fine. I'm on
> archlinux and I suspect it could be my configuration. My hibernate
> scripts are the standard ones and I can see that the hibernate script
> is supported. Hal could be blocking g-p-m from executing suspend? How
> can I rectify this. Sorry for the long post and thanks for any
> assistance

What effect does the following have:

dbus-send --system --print-reply
--dest=org.freedesktop.Hal /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement.Suspend int32:0

dbus-send --system --print-reply
--dest=org.freedesktop.Hal /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement.Hibernate

If this works it's a g-p-m problem, if not then we should get some more
debugging details.

Richard.