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I get following error when I try to suspend my laptop:

failed to check authorisation: 
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Service.Unknown:
The name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 was not provided by any .service files

Which I understand as telling me that PolicyKit is not installed. The problem is, on my second laptop, which has identical OS and almost identical HW, suspend works fine without PolicyKit.

I know I could fix my problem by installing the policykit-1 package, but I am wondering whether PolicyKit is necessary for suspend to work - obviously not, because it works without on my other laptop.

I have no idea how PolicyKit is supposed to work. For reasons beyond this discussion, I would very much like to avoid having to install it.

Can I use suspend without having to install policyKit ?

I am using Debian Wheezy and LXDE

The other commands: "Shutdown" and "Restart" work fine. Also, my user is in group powerdev:

powerdev:x:108:martin

By "suspend", I mean "suspend to RAM".

Martin Vegter
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  • Following. I have a similar issue although PolicyKit is installed: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/158494/the-name-org-freedesktop-policykit1-was-not-provided-by-any-service-files – a coder Oct 01 '14 at 16:07
  • What groups is your user in on the 2 systems? The cmd. id -a on each system as the user that owns the desktop. – slm Oct 01 '14 at 23:42
  • @slm - id -a gives the same output on both systems: uid=1000(martin) gid=1000(martin) groups=1000(martin),29(audio),108(powerdev) – Martin Vegter Oct 02 '14 at 00:30

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I suspect you are using systemd. If that is true then use its built-in tool systemctl:

systemctl suspend
systemctl hibernate
systemctl hybrid-sleep
systemctl reboot
systemctl poweroff
systemctl halt

As always you can create an alias for any of these commands.

jimmij
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What about pm-utils?

Typing pm-suspend at the console suspends on demand.

You can install both acpid and acpi-support to sleep your laptop when you close the lid. You have to uncomment LID_SLEEP=true in /etc/default/acpi-support to get the lid working.

It did not require policykit-1 for me, but for full disclosure I am on jessie.

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  • I have pm-utils installed and pm-suspend from console works OK. But still I have the problem when using the "Suspend" button from the "Logout" menu in LXDE. – Martin Vegter Oct 01 '14 at 17:06
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    @MartinVegter - Regarding your other computer that does suspend: is it possible to do dpkg --get-selections > working_computer.txt and dpkg --get-selections > not_working_computer.txt; then get the two files in the same directory, and do diff working_computer.txt not_working_computer.txt? That will tell you what is installed on one machine but not the other. Then you may be able to narrow down the troublesome packages. – transistor1 Oct 01 '14 at 17:24