Comment 13 for bug 458537

I'm a complete newbie to ubuntu, having only received the computer with it two weeks ago, but I'm experiencing the same problem in 9.10. On advice from a more expert user with whom I have since unfortunately lost contact so he can't help me, I looked at the output of the terminal command "tail -50 /var/log/pm-suspend.log" (which I assume means print the last fifty lines of that file). It seems to verify that the computer activates hibernate and deactivates it again immediately.

Unfortunately, since I'm so new to ubuntu, I can't even tell if the previous messages in this bug thread have solved the problem or not. If so, can somebody walk me through the changes I need to make and how to make them? If not, well, I hope somebody finds a solution soon (and that perhaps my post here helps).