151012 Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 05:46:00PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
>> I want to be able to suspend my machine to RAM overnight or when I'm out.
> Just curious why : why not just power it off or lock it ?

It's not relevant to the problem,
but I don't want to switch off the router which connects to my ISP,
as it cb a nuisance to reconnect again.  No, no further comment re this !

>> The pkg to use seems to be Pm-utils, which I've installed.
>> 'pm-suspend' does suspend, but only briefly :
>> after  5 s , it restarts automatically & everything is back as before.
>> The log file shows this happening quite clearly.
>> What am I doing wrong ?  Am I using the correct tool ?
> What desktop environment are you using ?  OpenRC or systemd ?
> If you are using a desktop environment,
> it should have the suspend functionality built into it.

The latter are not DE's : I use Fluxbox + OpenRC.

> Do you have support for suspending to RAM compiled into the kernel ?

I believe so.

Thanks for the prompt response, but this doesn't help much.

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