Power manager not able to suspend or hibernate

[Greg Folkert]

On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 17:15 +0100, wwp wrote:
> 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

This tells me that your Display Manager is not properly honoring the
freedesktop specs.

Do you also have issues with Network Manager and Wireless networks and
wired interfaces not being "user controllable"? 

If so... can you try either GDM3 or other Freedesktop compliant Display Manager?
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