Can neither suspend on close in Gnome nor shut down with Gnome-Do

I suspect this may have come from the recent HAL update, though I can't be to sure. I am able to suspend and shut down by going to the system menu, but shutting down with the Gnome-Session-Manager plugin in Do yields this output:
[Error 07:24:04.114] [PowerManagement] Could not shutdown: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method "Shutdown" with signature "" on interface "org.freedesktop.PowerManagement" doesn't exist
As for the Power Manager dumbness... It worked fine before? When I close my laptop, it simply blanks the screen rather than suspend it, which I set it to do in the options. I can't figure out how to get output from that, even running it in the console, so learning how might rock.

wonder wrote:try this: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14266
I assume I would add that bit under the ./configure in the PKGBUILD, correct? About:
build() {
cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
export LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS} -Wl,--as-needed"
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \
--localstatedir=/var \
--libexecdir=/usr/lib/gnome-power-manager \
--enable-policykit \
--with-dpms-ext \
--disable-scrollkeeper \
--with-dbus-services=/usr/share/dbus-1/services \
--enable-applets || return 1 \
--enable-legacy-buttons
If so, after compiling with ABS (which I just learned from the wiki cool stuff) and installing, it didn't work.

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