hibernate, suspend occasionally missing from shutdown menu

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage . I have classified this bug as a bug in gdm.

Brian, thanks for looking at this; I'm not sure that gdm is the right package; I was referring to the power icon in the top right of a logged-in desktop. This problem may also affect the gdm shutdown interface, but I don't know if that's the case. I didn't/don't know what package that button belongs to, though.

I hope this is the right package to assign this to...

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I am seeing the same problem now with Ubuntu Intrepid beta (as apt-updated yesterday). Hibernate and suspend definitely work fine, but sometimes when I press the power button or menu to System > Shut down..., the log-out menu takes a long time to appear (or doesn't appear at all) and when/if it does arrive, the hibernate and suspend options are missing. And then, later, they are available again. Strange!

I am seeing the same problem with Intrepid, updated as of about thirty minutes ago. I am using avant-window-navigator and have disabled gnome-panel, if that helps.

I keep seeing this problem --- it regularly (> 50% of the time?) stops me from being able to suspend. Even more annoying, the log-out menu sometimes pops up several minutes after requesting it: by this time if I've decided to leave it unsuspended and left the room, the 60 sec timeout will turn the machine off!

Incidentally, I've found that killing gnome-power-manager and manually restarting it from the command line tends to solve the problem: not ideal but at least it makes it possible to suspend when it's really needed.

I'm using an up-to-date Intrepid, by the way.

While the first time I logged in I had options other than Log Out and
Switch User, those days are gone. :P I can still run pm-suspend and
pm-hibernate, although last time I ran pm-suspend the system suspended
and then immediately woke up (which it did successfully, however.)

On 11/21/08, Andy Buckley <email address hidden> wrote:
> I'm using an up-to-date Intrepid, by the way.
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> hibernate, suspend occasionally missing from shutdown menu
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223772
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> Status in "gnome-power-manager" source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Sometimes the Hibernate and Suspend options are missing from the GNOME
> shutdown menu.
>
> This happens without any indication from the system of what the cause is.
>
> It would be far better if the user were kept informed of what's going on.
>
> For example, ghosted buttons on the shutdown menu, with tooltip indications
> such as "GNOME cannot suspend your system because you don't have the
> required permissions", "...because gnome-power-manager is not running",
> "...because the dbus session restarted".
>
> Another possibility would be a popup notification when the event happens,
> e.g. "gnome-power-manager has died. You will not be able to suspend your
> system." or "dbus session restarted. Your computer will be unusable. Ha
> ha, sucks to be you."
>