[arch-general] pm-utils not working

[Sentinel]

Sentinel wrote:
> Jan de Groot wrote:
>> On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 22:31 +0100, Sentinel wrote:
>>  
>>> Hellou,
>>>
>>> I tried to look for somebody with a similar problem on the arch 
>>> forum, but with no success, that is why I'm writing here.
>>>
>>> After a recent upgrade when a click on the shutdown menu in gnome 
>>> the hibernate and suspend buttons are no longer present. If I try to 
>>> suspend or hibernate from console it has no effect. My 
>>> /var/log/pm-powersave.log and pm-suspend.log are attached to this mail.
>>>
>>> Any idea what went wrong?
>>>     
>>
>> You will need hal from testing. The policykit package in extra doesn't
>> contain hal configuration, as that belongs to the hal package.
>>
>>   
> Thank you for your advice. I installed hal from testing. The buttons 
> are there. But when I try to suspend or hibernate the screen goes 
> blank (as usually) but after that the gnome screen saver apears and 
> then gnome prompts me to enter my password (as if I turned my computer 
> on after the hibernation). After entering the password nothings happens.  
after inspecting the logs I found that there is an error that has 
somethuing to do with wicd. So I tried removeing that package (not using 
it anyway). It helped ...

Thanks again for that hal tip Jan.

Tom