hibernate option not available - hp mini 5101 - LVM

[Ben Prescott]

Fresh install of Precise using the beta ISO and with all the upgrades applied since then.

Don't have the menu option to hibernate; only suspend. And the system settings -> power utility shows hibernate greyed out on the drop-downs.

LVM

System used to run a 2009 release of ubuntu which is now out of support, and was built using logical volume manager.
(hibernate worked on the original build)

As I wanted to retain some filesystems, continued support of LVM was required.

So, I added lvm to the usb boot image, and also added it to the installed machine via chroot.

It was, however, a clean install - the '/', '/boot', and '/home' filesystems were specified in the installer.

my research has identified the following

1. I am running the i915 driver referenced in Bug #961932 and so could be susceptible to that memory corruption bug
2. Bug #954668 relates to hibernation on precise; but that machine suspends to disk, but doesn't restore from it. I can't suspend this to disk.

I have now tripped over:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/94754/how-to-modify-policykit-to-allow-hibernation-in-upower

ie Bug #812394 - which I need to investigate further.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: pm-utils 1.4.1-9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-20.32-generic-pae 3.2.12
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 1.95-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Mar 25 13:09:05 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta i386 (20120301)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 TERM=xterm
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pm-utils
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ben Prescott (ben.prescott)]

yep, fixed by procedure here:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/94754/how-to-modify-policykit-to-allow-hibernation-in-upower

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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