Public bug reported: Suspend on lid close has been working fine for me up until some recent (last month-ish) update. Now, when I close the lid, the screen goes dark, but the suspend-light doesn't blink, and when I open it is not locked and the laptop has obviously not suspended.
This is on a Thinkpad X200 with Xubuntu 14.04, using xscreensaver for locking (had some trouble with light-locker). The xcfe power settings are to lock and suspend on lid close (regardless of plugged-in/battery). Manually doing alt-f2 and typing "xflock4" locks the screen as expected. Manually doing "sudo pm-suspend" suspends the laptop as expected. Manually clicking the xfce4 tray icon and clicking suspend also suspends the laptop as expected. Running "acpi_listen" and closing and opening the lid shows: button/lid LID close button/lid LID open Running "while sleep 1; do cat /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state ;done" similarly shows state: open state: closed state: closed state: open xfce4-power-manager claims it can suspend and sees the lid: $ LC_ALL=C xfce4-power-manager --dump # LC_ALL=C for English --------------------------------------------------- Xfce power manager version 1.2.0 With policykit support With network manager support With DPMS support --------------------------------------------------- Can suspend: True Can hibernate: True Can spin down hard disks: True Authorized to suspend: True Authorized to hibernate: False Authorized to shutdown: True Authorized to spin down hard disks: False Has battery: True Has brightness panel: True Has power button: True Has hibernate button: True Has sleep button: True Has LID: True ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: xfce4-power-manager 1.2.0-3ubuntu4.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-32.57-generic 3.13.11.4 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-32-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: XFCE Date: Thu Jul 31 08:26:06 2014 InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-06-17 (408 days ago) InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130423.1) SourcePackage: xfce4-power-manager UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-27 (94 days ago) ** Affects: xfce4-power-manager (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug trusty -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1350693 Title: no suspend nor lock on lid close though acpi_listen shows events To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-power-manager/+bug/1350693/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs