Power manager not able to suspend or hibernate

[wwp]

Hello Greg,


On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 11:50:59 -0500 Greg Folkert <greg at gregfolkert.net> wrote:

> 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"? 

They all work fine, from within Xfce or GNOME (it's a CentOS6 with Xfce
4.10 installed from the sources).


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

Not an option, but.. thanks, anyway.


Regards,

-- 
wwp
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