Hibernate/Suspend missing from new desktop menu

[fivebells]

I recently upgraded to lynx from karmic on my Lenovo T61 laptop. I had to switch from gdm to xdm to get X working smoothly. No big deal. In the menu under the power-button icon on the right-hand side of the top panel, I no longer have suspend or hibernate options. pm-suspend and pm-suspend-hybrid both seem to work from the commandline, which is adequate. However, is there a way to get those menu options back? (Or have they moved somewhere else?)

[okplayer02]

thank you i am having the same issue with fresh install of lucid. I do have all the acpi tools intalled on my dell gx270 Pentium 4 machine. So any help be appreciated



SOLVED

I went into my bios for my machine and changed the settings on power management and after restart the suspend button popped up now.

[captwiggum]

Same issue here. On 10.04 pm-suspend works fine from cmd line, but the suspend option missing from power menu. On a previous boot it was there. So there must be some criteria or event that decides whether it goes into the menu. Any ideas appreciated.

[captwiggum]

Things of note between the time suspend was present, and now: I changed from a swap file to a swap partition. But the new swap is definitely active, and visible in /proc/swaps. I verified that gnome-power-manager is running. Also, I notice when suspend was present in the menu, there was an "on battery" tab in system --> preferences --> power management. When suspend is missing from the menu, the "on battery" tab is also missing from the power management settings. What should I check in addition to gnome-power-manager? Or specifically, what procs or files affect the "on battery" tab of the power management settings?

[captwiggum]

This issue is being tracked in the following two bugs. These are all related. If gnome-power-manager has a problem, then three things happen: 1) battery icon does not display, 2) "on battery" tab does not display in system --> preferences --> power management, 3) suspend is missing from power-off menu.

"gnome-power-manager doesn't show icon as non-root user"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...er/+bug/532005

"battery icon is not shown"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...er/+bug/529911

The root cause of the gnome-power-manager trouble maybe different for different users. For me after running "killall gnome-power-manager && gnome-power-manager --verbose 2>&1 | tee gpm.log" I see that the issue is in devkit-power-gobject:

(gnome-power-manager:9264): devkit-power-gobject-WARNING **: Couldn't enumerate devices: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)

All I can do is follow the bugs and watch for the solution.

[captwiggum]

This topic is a duplicate of this thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9357791
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