F15 fails to suspend/hibernate on Thinkpad W510+

[Andras Simon]

On 6/24/11, Darryl L. Pierce <dpierce at redhat.com> wrote:
> Whenever I try to put my laptop into either suspend or hibernate mode
> (i.e., close the lid when not plugged in) the laptop _seems_ to be
> trying to go to sleep but never quite gets there. The battery light
> stays on, the sleep light (crescent moon) light blinks, but there's no
> disk activity and the power light stays on.
>
> And nothing short of holding the power button down and forcing a power
> off works for bringing the laptop back out of htis state.

/var/log/pm-suspend.log may be worth a look.
And you could run pm-is-supported (see its manpage for how to
interpret the result).

> Any ideas on what I should or could do to get suspend to work again?
> It's a PITA to have to hard shutdown the laptop when I accidentally shut
> the lid.

I hope this feature (closing lid causes suspend) can be switched off
somehow. It's a PITA even if suspend/hibernate works.

Andras