Problem Suspending on Debian Etch (Solved)

[jantzen]

Well, perhaps I can stop bugging people about this.  Last week as part
of an otherwise ill-advised upgrade from unstable (to solve this issue),
I obtained the kernel image 2.6.17-2-amd64.  Since the update hosed my
graphics driver and I had to rollback Xorg, I never got around to
testing suspend with the new kernel image til now.  It works.  No idea
why.  I'd listen to an explanation if anyone has one.

Best,
David


On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 03:17 -0700, jantzen wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm struggling to configure gnome-power-manager to suspend on a couple
> of laptops running Debian Etch.  I've traced the problem back to some
> error messages from HAL.  
> 
> Linux kernel: 2.6.16-2-em64t-p4-smp
> HAL: 0.5.7.1-2
> udev: 0.100-1
>  
> # dbus-send --system --print-reply
> --dest=org.freedesktop.Hal /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer
> org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement.Suspend int32:0
> Error org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.UnknownError: An unknown error occured
> 
> Here's the verbose logging of the HAL daemon:
> 
>  OK for method 'Suspend' with signature 'i' on interface
> 'org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement' for UDI
> '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer' and execpath
> 'hal-system-power-suspend'
> Sep 26 01:45:34 localhost hald[19131]: 01:45:34.125 [I]
> hald_dbus.c:2613: no need to enqueue
> Sep 26 01:45:34 localhost hald[19131]: 01:45:34.129 [I]
> hald_dbus.c:2635: No more methods in queue
> Sep 26 01:45:34 localhost hald[19131]: 01:45:34.129 [I]
> hald_dbus.c:2680: failed with 'suspend: Could not stat the snapshot
> device file'
> 'org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement.NotSupported'
> 
> The output of lshal is huge and doesn't look helpful to me, but I can
> provide it if needed.
> 
> Thanks Much,
> David