On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 07:13:00 -0600, Byron Clark <byron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 11:16:13PM +0200, Csomay Mihaly wrote: >> So I would think that running pm-suspend from a terminal would work >> also, but it hangs on /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/98-smart-kernel-video. >> If I move that file away, it suspends, but then the screen isn't >> restored on resume, it's blank. > > Sounds like you're hitting this bug: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18881 That may be it, I don't have the laptop with me now, but I reinstalled on or around 2010-03-30, which is the date of the newest grep package in core. Thanks for the tip, I'll try the grep from testing, and will report back. But if that's the cause, how come it works flawlessly when acpid is calling the same pm-suspend binary, and it only hangs when I call it from the command line?