throttled service failed to start.
aneeshrb opened this issue · comments
I'm using ThinkPad T480 Fedora 30 Kernel 5.3.16-200. When i'm starting the throttled service it's failed.throttled.service - Stop Intel throttling
systemctl status throttled
● throttled.service - Stop Intel throttling
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/throttled.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2020-01-01 21:39:42 IST; 12min ago
Process: 6086 ExecStart=/usr/bin/throttled --config /etc/throttled.conf (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 6086 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Jan 01 21:39:41 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Started Stop Intel throttling.
Jan 01 21:39:42 localhost.localdomain throttled[6086]: [I] Detected CPU architecture: Intel Kaby Lake (R)
Jan 01 21:39:42 localhost.localdomain throttled[6086]: [I] Loading config file.
Jan 01 21:39:42 localhost.localdomain throttled[6086]: [E] Unable to write to MSR. Try to disable Secure Boot and check if your kernel does not restrict acce>
Jan 01 21:39:42 localhost.localdomain throttled[6086]: [E] Unable to open /dev/mem. Try to disable Secure Boot.
Jan 01 21:39:42 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: throttled.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jan 01 21:39:42 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: throttled.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
@aneeshrb this is not a packaging issue as far as I can tell. The following snippet seems to indicate that somehting is blocking required access:
Jan 01 21:39:42 localhost.localdomain throttled[6086]: [E] Unable to write to MSR. Try to disable Secure Boot and check if your kernel does not restrict acce>
Jan 01 21:39:42 localhost.localdomain throttled[6086]: [E] Unable to open /dev/mem. Try to disable Secure Boot.
You could try as suggested or try upgrading to 0.7.