Bug#503085: gdm: suspend from login screen does not work

[Tim Richardson]

On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 14:25 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mercredi 22 octobre 2008 à 23:13 +1100, Tim Richardson a écrit :
> > Package: gdm
> > Version: 2.20.7-3
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > After logging out, I have an Options button which includes suspend as
> > an option. Choosing suspend gives me a dialog asking me to confirm my
> > choice.
> > However, the computer does nothing.
> 
> > ii  uswsusp                       0.8-1.1    tools to use userspace software su
> 
> What happens if you run s2ram as root, by hand?
> 
> Thanks,
The answer is
/usr/sbin/pm-suspend

which I found in my own contribution to the wiki.debian.org entry for
suspend

Perhaps this should be the default? It solved the problem on the two
computers I've tested it on so far.