Bug#457566: gnome-power-manager: power button "ask" menu does not implement suspend properly

[Tim Richardson]

Package: gnome-power-manager
Version: 2.20.2-1
Severity: normal

On my Dell latitude C610, suspend and hibernate work well if 
chosen from the System 
menu or via the suspend hotkey.
Also, if via the GPM preference I change the action associated with the 
power button to be suspend, then the power button correctly puts the 
machine into suspend.
However, if I have the power button preference to be "ask", pushing the 
power button brings up a menu. From this menu, I can choose suspend, but 
it does nothing.

How to replicate the bug:
1. Set the GPM preference for power button pressed to be "ask" via the 
General Tab of System -> Preferences -> Power Management
2. Push the power button
3. Choose the menu option "suspend" from the dialog box.

Observed action:
The system does not suspend

Correct action
The system should suspend

Because suspend works well when executed via alternative methods, the 
problem is not actually with suspend, but is due to the action defined  
from the 
power button dialog box.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-power-manager depends on:
ii  gconf2                  2.20.1-2         GNOME configuration database syste
ii  hal                     0.5.10-4         Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  libart-2.0-2            2.3.19-3         Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0             1.20.0-1         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0            2.20.2-1         Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0          2.20.0-1         The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                   2.7-5            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2               1.4.12-1         The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.1.2-1          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2        0.74-1           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1          2.5.0-2          generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6            2.3.5-1+b1       FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4             2.20.1-2         GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0             1:2.6.2-1        library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.14.4-2         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0       2.20.2-1         GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0             2.20.1.1-1       The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0       2.20.1.1-1       A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0            2.20.1.1-1       The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0          1:2.20.1-1       GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0      0.10.15-3        Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0             2.12.3-2         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libhal1                 0.5.10-4         Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libice6                 2:1.0.4-1        X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1- 0.4.4-3          sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  liborbit2               1:2.14.7-0.1     libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpanel-applet2-0      2.20.2-2         library for GNOME Panel applets
ii  libpango1.0-0           1.18.3-1         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0              1.2.15~beta5-3   PNG library - runtime
ii  libpopt0                1.10-3           lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                  2:1.0.3-1+b1     X11 Session Management library
ii  libstartup-notification 0.9-1            library for program launch feedbac
ii  libwnck22               2.20.2-1         Window Navigator Construction Kit 
ii  libx11-6                2:1.0.3-7        X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1             1:1.1.9-1        X cursor management library
ii  libxext6                1:1.0.3-2        X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3              1:4.0.3-2        X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxi6                  2:1.1.3-1        X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1            1:1.0.2-1        X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2                 2.6.30.dfsg-3    GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2              2:1.2.2-1        X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1             1:0.9.4-1        X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  notification-daemon     0.3.7-1+b1       a daemon that displays passive pop
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-8 compression library - runtime

gnome-power-manager recommends no packages.

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