Yohan Pereira writes: > This happened after a recent world upgrade. I am currently using kde > 4.8.4. I can however suspend, hibernate using the pm-utils as root. > Google has lead me to believe this has something to do with consolekit.
Or maybe sys-auth/polkit? There were issues lately with a nonexisting home directory, the elog message tells us to fix this with: usermod -d "/var/lib/polkit-1" "polkitd" Wonko