how to debug broken hibernate?

[Jaime Davila]

Colin Brace wrote:
> On 6/7/06, Jaime Davila <jdavila at hampshire.edu> wrote:
> 
>> So the acpi daemon detects no hibernate requests. How are you telling
>> the machine to go into hibernation? I've been assuming that you have
>> been pressing some function keys on your keyboard.
> 
> No, I have been using the "hibernate" command on the gnome logout panel.
> 

Then lets make sure the button is configured correctly. Just in case you 
haven't seen this before:
gconf-editor -> apps -> gnome-power-management. Make sure that "Can 
Hibernate" is checked, and that action-button-hibernate is set to 
hibernate. If it isn't, right click on it and choose "edit key."

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