quidance-power-manager only instructs HAL to suspend/hibernate and then everything is done by acpi-support and kernel to properly suspend the system.
I would suggest that you try this first from the console prompt with "sudo pmi action suspend" and "sudo pmi action hibernate" - this will provide you more details (log messages) of what may went wrong. -- Hibernate and suspend do not work https://launchpad.net/bugs/73174 -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs