Hibernate option missing from gnome-shell session menu

[Jesse Michael]

I upgraded to Oneiric recently and installed gnome-shell because unity still has some pretty serious functionality problems, but discovered that the gnome-shell session menu doesn't have a Hibernate option, just Suspend.

I never use suspend, but use hibernate at least twice a day, so this regression in functionality is a pain.

The alternative-status-menu shell extension (http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Extensions) for gnome-shell adds the Hibernate option back, but it apparently isn't packaged for Ubuntu yet.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Detlef Lechner (detlef-lechner)]

I am affected too.
~$ uname -a; Linux T61 3.0.0.15-server #29-Ubuntu SMP Feb 14 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Lengereau (alexandre-lengereau)]

i'm affected too.
I don't have any menu for hibernate .

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Esokrates (esokrarkose)]

@vanvugt: What would be your proposed way to fix this in Ubuntu if upstream doesn't change their mind? A new extension? Adding a patch to the package?

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Yes either of those.