[Bug 50823] Suspend and hibernate used to work - now broken

[Hal Eisen]

Public bug reported:

I am running Dapper on a IBM Thinkpad T42.

When I first installed Dapper, both suspend and hibernate worked
perfectly every time.  I could invoke them from the tray icon, or from
the lid being closed.  I was very happy.

Then, there was a kernel upgrade (2.6.15-25-686) which caused the
machine to never boot.  So I dropped back to the 2.6.15-23-686 kernel by
changing my /boot/grub/menu.lst file.  Suspend and hibernate worked fine
for a week or so.  Then there was a pcmcia-cs update, and now suspend
and hibernate are broken.

When I do a suspend, I get a small dialog bubble which says:
  Suspend Problem
  Your computer failed to
  suspend.
  Check the FAQ page for
  common problems.

The FAQ page is a link to http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnome-power-
manager/faq.html which provides no help whatsoever.

When I do a hibernate, I get a small dialog bubble which says:
  Hibernate Problem
  HAL failed to hibernate.  Check
  the FAQ page for common
  problems.

The FAQ page is the same non-helpful link to the GNOME Power manager.

I see entries in /var/log/syslog indicating that "gnome-power-manager:
Suspending computer because user clicked suspend from tray menu"

I do not get any useful messages in /var/log/acpid.

** Affects: linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
         Status: Needs Info

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Suspend and hibernate used to work - now broken
https://launchpad.net/bugs/50823