x61s suspend and hibernate buttons don't work; suspend 'forbidden by policy'

[Martin Pool]

I have a Thinkpad X61s running current Intrepid and
Linux lithe 2.6.27-2-generic #1 SMP Thu Aug 28 17:20:02 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

Clicking the battery panel applet, then choosing hibernate does hibernate and resume successfully.

Pressing the hibernate hotkey (Fn+F12) does nothing.

Pressing the suspend hotkey (Fn+F4) shows a tooltip "Action forbidden\n Suspend is not available on this computer." There is no suspend option on the power panel applet.

The shut down menu item shows a hibernate option but no suspend option.

Suspend was working on this machine in the past.

[Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel)]

can you use keytouch to set those keys?

[James Westby (james-w)]

Hi Martin,

Could you please confirm whether you have "uswsusp" installed on this machine?

  dpkg -l uswsusp

will tell you.

Thanks,

James

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

Yes, I do

mbp@lithe% dpkg -l uswsusp
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-=========================-=========================-==================================================================
ii uswsusp 0.6~cvs20070618-1ubuntu2 tools to use
userspace software suspend provided by Linux

[James Westby (james-w)]

Hi Martin,

It sounds very much like you have hit bug 267141 which is being discussed there and
at

  https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2008-September/026586.html

There should hopefully be a fix winging it's way to the archive very soon. In
the meantime if you need suspend to work just remove the uswsusp package.

Thanks,

James

[Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel)]

> dpkg -l uswsusp

$ dpkg -l uswsusp
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-=========================-=========================-==================================================================
ii uswsusp 0.6~cvs20070618-1ubuntu2 tools to use userspace software suspend provided by Linux

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