I confirm it's also happening to me, but I suspect it might not be, or not entirely, gnome-power-manager's mistake. I updated hal to 0.5.9 on a Feisty laptop and noticed the same bug: closing the lid would not suspend unless you re-open and re-close lid. Downgrading to hal 0.5.8 did the trick.
Maybe gnome-power-manager needs to adjust its functioning with newest hal, or maybe I'm wrong & gnome-power-manager is the only guilty part :) -- gnome-power-manager does not suspend on laptop lid close https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/120521 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs