Bug 2278086

Summary: powertop should require xset
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jonathan Wright <jonathan>
Component: powertopAssignee: Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 40CC: ajax, jskarvad, pbrobinson, TicoTimo
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Description Jonathan Wright 2024-05-01 04:23:37 UTC 
xset is required by the -c flag.

Ex:

# powertop -c
modprobe cpufreq_stats failed
Loaded 131 prior measurements
RAPL device for cpu 0
RAPL Using PowerCap Sysfs : Domain Mask 5
RAPL device for cpu 0
RAPL Using PowerCap Sysfs : Domain Mask 5
Devfreq not enabled
glob returned GLOB_ABORTED
Starting PowerTOP power estimate calibration 
Calibrating idle
sh: line 1: /usr/bin/xset: No such file or directory
To show power estimates do 325 measurement(s) connected to battery only
sh: line 1: /usr/bin/xset: No such file or directory
Calibrating: disk usage 
Calibrating backlight
.... device /sys/class/backlight/amdgpu_bl1/brightness 
^C


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Jaroslav Škarvada 2024-05-02 09:32:28 UTC 
Thanks, good catch.
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2024-05-02 09:40:51 UTC 
FEDORA-2024-26233efc1b (powertop-2.15-7.fc41) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 41.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-26233efc1b
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2024-05-02 10:09:22 UTC 
FEDORA-2024-ed3c021c8b (powertop-2.15-7.fc40) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 40.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-ed3c021c8b
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2024-05-02 20:42:03 UTC 
FEDORA-2024-26233efc1b (powertop-2.15-7.fc41) has been pushed to the Fedora 41 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2024-05-03 03:11:28 UTC 
FEDORA-2024-ed3c021c8b has been pushed to the Fedora 40 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2024-ed3c021c8b`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-ed3c021c8b

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
Comment 6 Peter Robinson 2024-05-03 09:13:36 UTC 
Could this be made a soft dependency, it pulls in most of the X stack which isn't great for systems that don't already have it installed.
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2024-05-11 01:29:41 UTC 
FEDORA-2024-ed3c021c8b (powertop-2.15-7.fc40) has been pushed to the Fedora 40 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 8 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 2024-06-06 16:26:00 UTC 
(In reply to Peter Robinson from comment #6)
> Could this be made a soft dependency, it pulls in most of the X stack which
> isn't great for systems that don't already have it installed.

Seconded.

I was a bit annoyed to see xset and a 10 libX* packages in the dnf update report on my headless server.
Comment 9 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 2024-06-06 16:53:42 UTC 
Bug 2290742 filed.