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 C8AD513888F for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 22:48:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 55F5421C009; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 22:48:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-1.ca.inter.net (mail-1.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.69]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5160FE077B for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 22:48:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (offload-3.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.70]) by mail-1.ca.inter.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40A4131B5D7 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 18:48:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail-1.ca.inter.net ([208.85.220.69]) by localhost (offload-3.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.70]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id M4Oqhe55kXG2 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 18:48:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ca.inter.net (host-45-78-214-7.dyn.295.ca [45.78.214.7]) by mail-1.ca.inter.net (Postfix) with SMTP id C81EE31B5CA for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 18:48:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ca.inter.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 12 Oct 2015 18:48:16 -0400 Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 18:48:16 -0400 From: Philip Webb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] pm-suspend problem Message-ID: <20151012224816.GF3729@ca.inter.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20151012214600.GD3729@ca.inter.net> <20151012220800.GA958@apio.adsroot.itcs.umich.edu> 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: <20151012220800.GA958@apio.adsroot.itcs.umich.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Archives-Salt: 9a844c35-ea23-4710-b158-bc4d856822aa X-Archives-Hash: de3f07f94e96cd9fef96a8c059281278 151012 Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > 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 why : why not just power it off or lock it ? It's not relevant to the problem, but I don't want to switch off the router which connects to my ISP, as it cb a nuisance to reconnect again. No, no further comment re this ! >> 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 ? > If you are using a desktop environment, > it should have the suspend functionality built into it. The latter are not DE's : I use Fluxbox + OpenRC. > Do you have support for suspending to RAM compiled into the kernel ? I believe so. Thanks for the prompt response, but this doesn't help much. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca