Update to 0.17 disables hibernate for ordinary user

[Tom]

After updating to 0.17 I receive

"GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed: Operation not supported"

when trying to hibernate from the desktop UI. Instead, the screensaver is launched.

I have mitigated this by following a procedure https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/other/enabling-suspend-on-linux-lite/ to add site-local rules which override the /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/com.ubuntu.desktop.pkla file. This file /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/com.ubuntu.enable-hibernate.pkla contains:

[Re-enable hibernate by default in upower]
Identity=unix-user:*
Action=org.freedesktop.upower.hibernate
ResultActive=yes

[Re-enable hibernate by default in logind]
Identity=unix-user:*
Action=org.freedesktop.login1.hibernate
ResultActive=yes

Disabling part of the UI doesn't seem the right thing.

pollen ~ # getent group | grep tomj
adm:x:4:syslog,tomj
cdrom:x:24:tomj
sudo:x:27:tomj
dip:x:30:tomj
plugdev:x:46:tomj
lpadmin:x:108:tomj
sambashare:x:110:tomj
tomj:x:1000:

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

What ubuntu version and desktop environment do you use?

Are you sure it's new to this version, hibernate is disabled on purpose for longer than that

policykit-desktop-privileges (0.8) precise; urgency=low

  * Disable hibernation by default. (LP: #812394)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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