Bug 245293

Summary: kpowersave can't find pidof
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Doncho Gunchev <dgunchev>
Component: kpowersaveAssignee: Dennis Gilmore <dennis>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 8CC: greg.martyn, rdieter
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Fixed In Version: 0.7.3-3.fc8 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Doncho Gunchev 2007-06-22 08:06:26 UTC 
Description of problem:
Every now and then (at start, after resume) kpowersave complains that 
it "Could not start 'pidof'. Could not autosuspend the machine.
Please check your installation.".

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kpowersave-0.7.2-1.fc7

How reproducible:
Almost every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install kpowersave, run it in KDE
2. logout
3. login

Additional info:
It also complained about not being able to umount all removable devices a few 
times.
Comment 1 Marcin Wilk 2007-11-05 01:24:03 UTC 
noticed the same problem... since j'm running non english version the
translation of system massage is like ...."kpowersave is not able to execute/run
pidof, could not autosuspend, Please check suspend settings"....

it cures every time i login the system or change settings in kpowersave...

suspending manually using kpowersave works fine...

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System config:

FC7 KDE3.5.7
kernel 2.6.23.1-10_1.cubbi_tuxonice.fc7 #1 SMP i686 (atrpms)
kpowersave-0.7.3-0.2svn20070828.fc7
pm-utils-0.99.4-3.fc7 (atrpms)
acpid-1.0.4-8.fc7
acpitool-0.4.6-2.fc6
acpi-0.09-2.fc6
wmacpi-2.2-0.1.a1.fc7
hal-0.5.9-8.fc7
dbus-1.0.2-6.fc7

/sbin/pidof
Comment 2 Joshua Covington 2008-02-06 23:22:01 UTC 
same here with fedora 8, up-to-date as of feb.7, 2008
Comment 3 Rex Dieter 2008-02-07 03:14:03 UTC 
Cannot confirm, worksforme.
Comment 4 Doncho Gunchev 2008-02-24 23:16:46 UTC 
Looks working here too... No idea when it got fixed, but for a long time I 
don't have this problem.
Comment 5 Doncho Gunchev 2008-03-05 01:04:11 UTC 
Well... it got fixed at some point...
Comment 6 Doncho Gunchev 2008-03-08 00:30:39 UTC 
Sorry, saw this again today... kpowersave-0.7.3-1.fc8.
Comment 7 Doncho Gunchev 2008-03-08 00:32:21 UTC 
Created attachment 297262 [details]
The error message screenshot (the error window only).
Comment 8 Greg Martyn 2008-03-09 19:15:41 UTC 
I can confirm this.

Here's the interesting part: /sbin/pidof exists

grep -R pidof /var/log
..doesn't return any results
Comment 9 Rex Dieter 2008-04-07 13:45:39 UTC 
ok, looks like this was fixed only in rawhide, in build kpowersave-0.7.3-3.

Looks like we need to issue an update for f7/f8.
Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2008-04-07 13:47:50 UTC 
kpowersave-0.7.3-3.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8
Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2008-04-09 05:17:18 UTC 
kpowersave-0.7.3-3.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update kpowersave'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-2959
Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2008-04-29 21:00:37 UTC 
kpowersave-0.7.3-3.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.