Bug#326657: battstat-applet-2 won't suspend without user intervention

[Jon Dowland]

Package: gnome-applets
Version: 2.8.2-3 
Severity: minor

Hello,

the battery status applet provides a context-menu entry entitled
'Suspend Computer'.

If the user has an apm-aware kernel and the apmd package installed
without any other changes, this option will report "The Suspend command
'/usr/bin/apm -s' was unsuccessful."

This is due to bug #134595, namely, only root can suspend the computer
by default. Setuid'ing /usr/bin/apm is one way of fixing this.

Now I think that gnome-panel should perhaps report more useful error
messages, but this but really depends on the aformentioned #134595 and
what might happen to make users calling /usr/bin/apm possible.

-- 
Jon Dowland
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