[Bug 41709] Re: HAL does not go to hibernate or sleep on Inspiron 600m

[Rob Frohne]

I have possibly the same issue with a Dell D600.  I can suspend or
hibernate once, but often the hald-addon-storage process will get into
an uninterruptible sleep state (as shown by  the ps command) and then I
cannot hibernate of suspend anymore.  If I edit the
/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/... files so that process doesn't start, my
suspend and hibernate problems go away, but then all the processes that
automatically mount CDs don't work.  I can also remove the CDRW/DVD
drive from the D600 before booting and I can suspend and hibernate at
will.  Why don't you check using:

ps aux | grep hald

and see if the hald-addon-storage process has a D or and S in the status
collumn.  D indicates uninterruptable sleep.  S indicates sleep.
Sometimes you can change it from D to S by inserting a CD in the CDROM,
but sometimes that won't wake it from its coma either.

I'm wondering if there is a way to stop and restart the hald-addon-
storage process before and after each suspend or hibernate
automatically.

See the laptop testing page for this machine at:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/DellLatitudeD600

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HAL does not go to hibernate or sleep on Inspiron 600m
https://launchpad.net/bugs/41709