As confirmed by some people in this bug's thread, the problem appears to come from recent ACPI backports in the 2.6.17 kernel sources. Reassigning.
** Changed in: acpid (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: acpid => linux-source-2.6.17 -- acpid: sleep and suspend no longer work in Edgy https://launchpad.net/bugs/61405 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs