Suspend on lid close setting in power options does not work

[Harm van Bakel]

The Power settings in unity-control-center provide the option to set events for "lid close" triggers. Setting this option to 'suspend' does nothing with an up to date Xenial installation. Running "sudo journalctl -b -u systemd-logind" shows that lid open and close events are properly detected, there is just no action associated with them.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: unity-control-center 15.04.0+16.04.20160315-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-17.33-generic 4.4.6
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Apr 6 08:48:23 2016
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-03-25 (11 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Beta amd64 (20160323)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity-control-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.