Bug#731426: gnome-session: GNOME does not offer to hibernate or suspend to RAM

[Francois Gouget]

Package: gnome-session
Version: 3.8.4-3
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

If I log in with either the 'GNOME' or 'GNOME Classic' sessions, the 
shutdown dialog only offers 'Cancel', 'Reboot' and 'Shutdown'. There is 
no 'Suspend' or 'Hibernate' option.

Furthermore my laptop's special key combination to suspend to RAM only 
blanks the screen. Also the laptop does not suspend to RAM if I close 
the lid (and I most definitely do not want it to).

Yet:
 * If I run the following command then the laptop suspends to RAM 
   normally. So that functionality is present and working.

   dbus-send --print-reply --system --dest=org.freedesktop.UPower 
       /org/freedesktop/UPower "org.freedesktop.UPower.Suspend"

 * If I log in using the 'GNOME Flashback' session, then I do get the 
   suspend to RAM and hibernate options. And the suspend to RAM Fn key 
   combination works too!

 * Finally I can also suspend to RAM from the GDM 3 screen.

 * This persists even after I wiped out my GNOME configuration.

So this bug is specific to the GNOME / GNOME Classic sessions.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-session depends on:
ii  gnome-session-bin      3.8.4-3
ii  gnome-session-common   3.8.4-3
ii  gnome-settings-daemon  3.8.5-2
ii  gnome-shell            3.8.4-5

gnome-session recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gnome-session suggests:
ii  desktop-base      7.0.3
ii  gnome-keyring     3.8.2-2
ii  gnome-user-guide  3.8.2-1

-- no debconf information