Dell Inspiron 510m freezes when lid is closed

[vilbara]

Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

Regression bug in 9.10 beta. Dell Inspiron 510m freezes when lid is closed. It worked fine on previous ubuntu versions.

I assume this is not a problem with suspend, but rather key/event handling. Suspend works fine if I press "suspend" key combination (Fn+Esc) on keyboard. However, closing notebook lid always freezes the notebook and I have to switch it off "the hard way" (press power button and keep holding it).

This bug is especially annoying when I start shutdown sequence and then close the lid before notebook is switched off.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 4 13:55:25 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gnome-power-manager 2.28.0-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686

[vilbara (vilmantas-baranauskas)]

After reading ubuntu 9.10 release notes, I think this is a problem of DeviceKit-power, not gnome-power-manager.

[Jaceq (dzacek83)]

I have the very same problem. This didn't occur on ubuntu 8.10 and 9.04

Laptop: Dell Inspiron 510m
Architecture: i686
Version: 2.6.31-14
Distro: Ubuntu 9.10

[xfaradi (faradi)]

Also I have the same problem.

Obviously there is no proper way to disable "lid close action" on the Dell 510m.
Is there any known workaround? Please let me know.

[AJ Cerqueti (aj-cerqueti)]

I also have this issue.

Laptop: Dell Inspiron 510m
Release: 2.6.31-16-generic
Distro: Ubuntu 9.10
Arch: i686

[David Sauvage (pariakanet)]

Same problem,

I consider this bug critical for the end user.
Ubuntu 9.10 i686

devicekit-power 011-1ubuntu1
gnome-power-manager 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
linux-image-2.6.31-17-generic 2.6.31-17.54

[David Sauvage (pariakanet)]

This critical bug still happen using Ubuntu 10.04 (i386) on Dell inspiron 510m [1]

[1] patched with 855GM glasen ppa to be able to load ubuntu on this dell
https://launchpad.net/~glasen/+archive/855gm-fix (experimental package work well for me)

ii gnome-power-manager 2.30.0-0ubuntu1
linux-image-2.6.32-22-generic 2.6.32-22.36

[vilbara (vilmantas-baranauskas)]

Seems to be fixed in current 10.10 (with 2.6.35-22-generic kernel). Closing notebook lid correctly puts notebook to sleep.