Package: gnome-power-manager Version: 2.22.1-1 Severity: normal Hello,
thank you for maintaining gnome-power-manager. In the new laptop, if I hit the suspend to ram hotkey, gnome-power-manager will tell me something like (translated from Italian back to English): "Problem suspending. The computer failed to suspend. Check help for common problems. [Don't show this notice] [Visit the website]". I would have expected at least an error message about what failed, or a pointer to a log file that I could use to debug the problem. Syslog just has this: Apr 30 09:56:04 viaza gnome-power-manager: (enrico) Sospensione del computer. Motivo: Il pulsante di sospensione รจ stato premuto. Apr 30 09:56:04 viaza gnome-power-manager: (enrico) Ripristino del computer Apr 30 09:56:04 viaza gnome-power-manager: (enrico) suspend failed syslog messages in Italian? Whoever designed this really did not want to help people to report bugs. Anyway, here is a translation: Apr 30 09:56:04 viaza gnome-power-manager: (enrico) Suspend the computer. Reason: the suspend key has been pressed Apr 30 09:56:04 viaza gnome-power-manager: (enrico) Resume the computer Apr 30 09:56:04 viaza gnome-power-manager: (enrico) suspend failed /var/log/messages and /var/log/user.log have exactly the same lines. No other log file seems to have been touched in /var/log or any of its subdirectories. Damn. Note: pm-suspend as root works, as well as s2ram. So I click [visit the website], which points here: http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/ At least it should point here: http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/quirk-suspend-index.html since the error comes out of a suspend attempt and had nothing to do with hotkeys or brightness. The page does not mention anything like "if you are here because gnome-power-manager told you to come here, do this", so you are left basically going through every link, in the hope to find anything useful. "I want to check common problems and to find quirks to try" looks like a useful thing, so I go there. I download quirk-checker.sh, read the source[1], run it and it tells me that I have no quirks, everything is fine. Then I go in "Other things to check", and the first thing it asks me to do is to run: 'rpm -q hal-info | cut -f3 -d"-"'. Fail: I'm on a Debian system. This is so shortsighted that I am left in awe. I paste the output of "dpkg -s hal-info | grep ^Version | cut -d' ' -f2-" and keep going. Luckily the package has the same name. I go through the various questions; you try to answer them properly for my case if you can: they are all formulated with some assuption in mind that in my case does not apply. Anyway, I reverse engineer the asker's intentions, fill them all up as well as I can and I get lots of smily happy faces, and no useful message. Stuck. So now, while having a laptop that is perfectly able to suspend and resume, thanks to gnome-power-manager deciding not to do it and providing no reason whatsoever, I have to use this interesting sequence: sleep 5; pm-suspend go and lock the screen manually It really is a very worrying sign when, on a Debian system, the UI gets in the way so much that it outright prevents any problem solving. Ciao, Enrico [1] seriously, since when are we supposed to tell the users to download a script from untrusted random places in the web and run it as root? -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages gnome-power-manager depends on: ii gconf2 2.22.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste ii hal 0.5.11~rc2-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.20-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.22.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libbonobo2-0 2.22.0-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library ii libbonoboui2-0 2.22.0-1 The Bonobo UI library ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.4.14-1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.1-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.74-2 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libfontconfig1 2.5.0-2 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.3.5-1+b1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgconf2-4 2.22.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.2-1 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.1-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome-keyring0 2.22.1-1 GNOME keyring services library ii libgnome2-0 2.20.1.1-1 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.20.1.1-1 A powerful object-oriented display ii libgnomeui-0 2.20.1.1-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf ii libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.22.0-2 GNOME Virtual File System (runtime ii libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.19-3 Core GStreamer libraries and eleme ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.9-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libhal1 0.5.11~rc2-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libnotify1 [libnotify1 0.4.4-3 sends desktop notifications to a n ii liborbit2 1:2.14.12-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB ii libpanel-applet2-0 2.20.3-3 library for GNOME Panel applets ii libpango1.0-0 1.20.2-2 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-3 PNG library - runtime ii libpopt0 1.10-3 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-1+b1 X11 Session Management library ii libwnck22 2.22.1-1 Window Navigator Construction Kit ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.9-1 X cursor management library ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxfixes3 1:4.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio ii libxi6 2:1.1.3-1 X11 Input extension library ii libxinerama1 2:1.0.3-1 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxml2 2.6.31.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library ii libxrandr2 2:1.2.2-1 X11 RandR extension library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-1 X Rendering Extension client libra ii notification-daemon 0.3.7-1+b1 a daemon that displays passive pop ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime gnome-power-manager recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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