squeeze: freeze on shutdown/hibernate/suspend

[Florian Marienfeld <debian@diaboflo.de>]

Hi,

I run squeeze on an acer travelmate 4002. everything is fine, but
shutdown, hibernate, and suspend don't work.

Shutdown says "will now halt" and spins down the disk, but then "task
halt was blocked for more than 120 seconds".

For suspend/hibernate pm-suspend.log ends with "performing
suspend"/"performing hibernate" but the screen never powers down. the
only way out is a hard shutdown.

This is probably a kernel issue as Ubuntu on the same machine started
behaving the same way after upgrading the kernel from 2.6.28 to 2.6.31.

Any ideas what's worth a try before filing a bug report?

Thanks in advance, best regards,

FLO