suspend error (all of a sudden)

[Tino Keitel]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 23:14:42 -0600, Mike McNally 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?

Ubuntu started to remove HAL with 9.10, by migrating some functions
previously handled by HAL to devicekit-* packages and to udev. Maybe
the power management was affected by this change.

Regards.
Tino