Failed to start hibernate.target: Access denied

Question

I upgraded my machine yesterday and  the Hibernate item in kmenu->Leave are missing. also "systemctl hibernate" dont work:
$ systemctl hibernate
Failed to execute operation: Sleep verb not supported
Failed to start hibernate.target: Access denied
log:
Mar 08 22:50:56 arch polkitd[720]: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-process:2370:106040 (system bus name :1.86 [/usr/bin/pkttyagent --notify-fd 5 --fallback], object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8)
Mar 08 22:50:56 arch dbus[363]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.87" (uid=1000 pid=2370 comm="systemctl hibernate -i ") interface="org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager" member="StartUnit" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination="org.freedesktop.systemd1" (uid=0 pid=1 comm="/sbin/init ")
Mar 08 22:50:56 arch polkitd[720]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-process:2370:106040 (system bus name :1.86, object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8) (disconnected from bus)
Suspend works fine.
Last edited by ReiserFS (2014-03-09 12:35:46)

Answer 1

I've got this same problem. For me it's because I haven't got a swap partition (even though I thought I set this machine up with one...). Perhaps you also don't have a swap partition, or maybe it's not mounted? Anyway, I would start with the Swap page of the wiki.