No suspend on lid close

[Andras Simon]

2012/9/2, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:00:30PM +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> I have Fedora 17 x86_64 installed on my Samsung N145Plus netbook.
>> Sometimes when I close the lid the machine keep on running instead of
>> suspend. I need to open and close the lid again to suspend. Any idea
>> why? Any solution?
>
> I recently saw this too with XFCE.  In my case it turned out to be a
> possible bug in how NetworkManager saves connections, that later
> makes the suspend process fail.
>
> Do you see any errors in /var/log/pm-suspend.log?  If so, could you post
> them?

FWIW I use xfce and have absolutely no problem suspending... but then
I'm doing it  on the command line. Perhaps the OP should try using
pm-suspend  as root to see on which level the problem originates.

Andras