> From: ed.greshko@greshko.com
> Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 21:21:42 +0800
> To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org
> Subject: Re: Unable to hibernate fc20 system
>
> On 06/06/14 12:14, Luke Nath wrote:
> > Clicking System -> Shutdown
> >
> > does not show the option to hibernate.
> >
> > Am I missing a package? Is this a mate problem??
>
> I don't know why this is the case. However, a little bit of research turns up people having the same problem...as do I on one system. Running KDE and the "Leave" submenu doesn't show "Suspend" or "Hibernate". It does on VM's.
>
> First you can check if your system supports various modes by using the "pm-is-supported" with the various options and checking the exit status. See the man page.
>
> You can also use pm-hibernate, pm-suspend to test the functions.
>
> The info I read suggests there is a bug in the pm-utils package that doesn't affect everyone. It may be worth your while to file a bugzilla. I don't make use of this feature, so I would probably be a poor candidate to do the reporting and follow-up.


Hi Ed,
pm-is-supported does not output anything. Exit status is 0. To wit:

# pm-is-supported --suspend
# echo $?
0
# pm-is-supported --hibernate
# echo $?
0
# pm-is-supported --suspend-hybrid
# echo $?
0
#