no standby possible when vmware player is running

[leszek]

I somehow fear that vmware is stopping the standby somehow.
Cannot imagine another reason for it to fail.
Usually there should be a notification when an application is preventing standby. Is there something like that for you too?

If not can you take a look at

Code:

sudo dmesg

after it failed and post the output here that could help.
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