Re: [gpm] suspend / hibernate problem

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 01:52 +0100, Peter Fiers wrote:
> I've got Power Manager 2.20.0 and pm-utils 0.99.4 on my laptop. I can 
> hibernate without problems using 'echo disk > /sys/power/state' or 
> pm-hibernate as root, I can even use the gnome-power-manager icon on
> the Desktop to hibernate when I am logged in as root. But I can't
> hibernate using it if I'm logged in as a regular user. Is it a
> permission problem or is it a bug? How can I fix it?

Are you running debian by any chance? If so, you need to add your user
to the powerdev group to be able to do this in Debian. In my opinion
it's pretty broken forcing the user to do that, but it's the debian
policy.

Richard.