From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1B5E13888F for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 22:08:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8BEF921C009; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 22:08:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com (out5-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.29]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5EAEDE07E0 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 22:08:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.nyi.internal [10.202.2.42]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 089992187E for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 18:08:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 12 Oct 2015 18:08:19 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-sasl-enc :x-sasl-enc; s=smtpout; bh=XcPy2qDvtN3wcN9PU/Hly7HIJKI=; b=os576 kRVKSnpA+nye/gZNfF1gcnYsp48PdWuI23om6bOfvAnCiMJdCqnNYAmgxtvr0WaG XAN7mQiZq1IYWjyIMBRpjpCqE4138MpfWPJ8Na8znxhqnPmBXSa92FyOsCAGCWAY ZGCqeuhw49nqGrkLFddlMh5KoWVs6m5RbDu06E= X-Sasl-enc: PA0JgU3nskpA/HaOBNFgo3r76OrrNwsvF14oJsDtTTw5 1444687698 Received: from apio.adsroot.itcs.umich.edu (0587342172.wireless.umich.net [35.2.33.92]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id AB483C00014; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 18:08:18 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 18:08:13 -0400 From: Alec Ten Harmsel To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] pm-suspend problem Message-ID: <20151012220800.GA958@apio.adsroot.itcs.umich.edu> References: <20151012214600.GD3729@ca.inter.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20151012214600.GD3729@ca.inter.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Archives-Salt: 23218e70-a9d0-4c27-80f9-5c6b9156928f X-Archives-Hash: ca19b8b78c160ec2cd4d2b97857489cb On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 05:46:00PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > I want to be able to suspend my machine to RAM overnight or when I'm out. Just curious, you don't need to answer: why? Why not just power it off or lock it? > The pkg to use seems to be Pm-utils, which I've installed. > 'pm-suspend' does suspend, but only briefly : > after 5 s , it restarts automatically & everything is back as before. > The log file shows this happening quite clearly. > > What am I doing wrong ? Am I using the correct tool ? What desktop environment are you using? OpenRC or systemd? Lastly, do you have support for suspending to RAM compiled into the kernel? If you are using a desktop environment, it should have the suspend functionality built into it. If you are using systemd, it should be as simple as a `systemctl suspend`. Alec