suspend error (all of a sudden)

[Ali Abdallah]

Run the following.

dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.Hal 
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer 
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.GetProperty string:'power_management.can_suspend'

see if your system is able to suspend, if true try:

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

Post what you see here.
Cheers,
Ali.


Mike McNally wrote:
> There's a whole bunch of "hald" processes running, and I did "service
> hal stop" and "service hal start".  Now I don't get the error, but
> suspending doesn't work.'
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> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Mike McNally <emmecinque at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> How do I do that? (I know what I'm doing in general but I don't know
>> what exactly HAL is. Well, I do, but I don't know what starting it
>> would look like.)
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>> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:19 PM, David Mohr <squisher at xfce.org> wrote:
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>>> 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
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>> Pink and shiny, turn around.
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