On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 05:11:16PM +1100, David Creelman wrote: > Package: xfce4-power-manager > Version: 1.2.0-3 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > Had to uninstall gnome as gnome-shell (I think) was locking up on startup of > the machine. > Once gnome-desktop-environment and gnome-shell were purged, my startup did > not lock up, > but all of my power settings seem to have been thrown away. It is now not > possible > to suspend the laptop when the lid is closed or to hibernate from a right > click of > the power manager icon in the panel.
Just to be sure, you use xfce4-power-manager in a GNOME environment? Or in an Xfce environment but you also had GNOME bits installed? > > I googled relatively extensively for how to get back whatever it is that is > missing > in my setup to reallow suspend/hibernate, but have had no luck. > (a side note, some hardware operations seem to be not working either, like > automount). > I suspect I need to add a policy, but I'm unable to work out how it all hangs > together. You should take a look at the README.Debian in xfce4-session which provides information about what you need for managing “hardware-level” permission (like shutdown/suspend/... and device mount perms). > > Tried adding back gnome-desktop-environment, but this led to my laptop > locking up > on startup again. I've resorted to doing sudo pm-suspend for the time being, > but it > would be great to be able to close the laptop lid and have suspend work again. > Usually you need (for now): consolekit, policykit-1 and policykit-1-gnome Regards, -- Yves-Alexis Perez
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