Power manager not able to suspend or hibernate

[wwp]

Hello Ralf,


On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 20:31:10 +0100 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 2014-02-03 at 09:22 +0100, wwp wrote:
> > One instance with no option, as self-configured by Xfce:
> > 
> > $ ps -ef | grep xfce4-power | grep -v grep
> > wwp      24906     1  0 08:47 ?        00:00:00 xfce4-power-manager
> 
> On my machine there it's also checked for the autostart, but I get
> 
> [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ ps -ef | grep xfce4-power | grep -v grep
> rocketm+   748     1  0 20:07 ?        00:00:00 xfce4-power-manager --restart --sm-client-id 27ef8f061-604b-4e36-bf16-41052197e127
> rocketm+   761     1  0 20:07 ?        00:00:00 xfce4-power-manager
> 
> I don't know if hibernate does work on my machine, it's a long time ago
> that I tested it, IIRC last time I tested it, resume didn't work. It's
> not important for me, since most of the times I use jackd as sound
> server and it anyway doesn't work for suspend and hibernate.
> 
> The man page for xfce4-power-manager is weak. The sm-client-id seems to
> be needed to save and restore an application session state. I don't have
> knowledge about it and a brief Internet research didn't give much
> information.

Hmm I don't know exactly why I had only one instance (maybe because I
restarted it manually), because now that I restarted the system, I have
the same as yours:

wwp       3627     1  0 Feb03 ?        00:00:00 xfce4-power-manager --restart --sm-client-id 2f9932257-43b8-4e3a-ab5e-e7927ca56386
wwp       3639     1  0 Feb03 ?        00:00:00 xfce4-power-manager

But nothing better.

About your ability to properly hibernate your system, I think it's not
the same issue. Here the hibernation and suspending features are greyed
or are not showing, and the debug output I previously sent show that
xfce can't access some system settings and thus doesn't allow to
hibernate/suspend, and I think it *is* the point:

(xfce4-power-manager:3304): xfce4-power-manager-WARNING **: 'CheckAuthorization' failed with Action org.freedesktop.upower.suspend is not registered

(xfce4-power-manager:3304): xfce4-power-manager-WARNING **: 'CheckAuthorization' failed with Action org.freedesktop.upower.hibernate is not registered


Regards,

-- 
wwp
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