[Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E540] suspend/resume failure

[Totally King]

suspend to RAM failed before it was completed:
* fan was still on and
* Fn-F1- & Fn-F4-status LEDs were still on (signifying muted speakers and microphone respectively)
* nevertheless the general ThinkPad LED (the i's dot) (/proc/acpi/ibm/led 0) behaved like normal: slowly blinking, which normally means "I'm suspended to RAM."
* however resume was impossible: wakeup failed through mouse clicks, various keyboard keys and combinations and also the power key, only a hard reset (5s or so holding down the power key) could bring it back to life

$ sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date
J9ET88WW (2.08 )
05/20/2014

This issue exists since BIOS v2.07 (see Bug #1331077).

ProblemType: KernelOops
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: linux-image-3.13.0-30-generic 3.13.0-30.54
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-30.54-generic 3.13.11.2
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-30-generic x86_64
Annotation: This occured during a previous suspend and prevented it from resuming properly.
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC1: xxxxxx 2588 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC0: xxxxxx 2588 F.... pulseaudio
Date: Wed Jun 18 13:09:08 2014
DuplicateSignature: suspend/resume:LENOVO 20C6S00200:J9ET88WW (2.08 )
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/apport/apportcheckresume
Failure: suspend/resume
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=2ecc68b9-65e3-4cee-9b2a-d41ff651e4e8
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-01-06 (162 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.4
MachineType: LENOVO 20C6S00200
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3 /usr/share/apport/apportcheckresume
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=linux
 PATH=(custom, no user)
ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.13.0-30-generic.efi.signed root=/dev/mapper/ubuntuvg-root ro quiet splash "acpi_osi=!Windows 2012" pcie_aspm=force intel_pstate=enable vt.handoff=7
PulseList: Error: command ['pacmd', 'list'] failed with exit code 1: No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-restricted-modules-3.13.0-30-generic N/A
 linux-backports-modules-3.13.0-30-generic N/A
 linux-firmware 1.127.3
SourcePackage: linux
Title: [LENOVO 20C6S00200] suspend/resume failure
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-06-12 (6 days ago)
UserGroups:

dmi.bios.date: 05/20/2014
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: J9ET88WW (2.08 )
dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available
dmi.board.name: 20C6S00200
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvrJ9ET88WW(2.08):bd05/20/2014:svnLENOVO:pn20C6S00200:pvrThinkPadEdgeE540:rvnLENOVO:rn20C6S00200:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 20C6S00200
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad Edge E540
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO

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[Totally King (totally-king)]

The upstream Mainline Kernel versions I tested (where this issue persists) were:
* v3.14.1-trusty (3.14.1-031401.201404141220)
* v3.15.1-utopic (3.15.1-031501.201406161841)
* 2014-06-18-utopic (3.16.0-999.201406180205)