suspend error (all of a sudden)

[David Mohr]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:14 PM, Mike McNally <emmecinque at gmail.com> wrote:
> I suspend my laptop (Ubuntu 9.10, with XFCE installed over that) all
> the time; like, every day for the past several months. Tonight I get
> this error:
>
>  Suspend and hibernate are only supported through HAL, which is unavailable
>
> Huh?  What does that mean?

HAL crashed? Check if it is still running, and try to restart it.

~David