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jon.pza

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Registered: 2014-07-10

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laptop mode tools broken? (thinkpad e545)

anybody else having issues after the last update of laptop mode? i've got this:

$ systemctl status laptop-mode
● laptop-mode.service - Laptop Mode Tools
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/laptop-mode.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (exited) since Fri 2015-08-28 18:25:43 EDT; 4h 0min ago
     Docs: man:laptop_mode(8)
           man:laptop-mode.conf(8)
           http://samwel.tk/laptop_mode
  Process: 388 ExecStart=init auto (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 388 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   CGroup: /system.slice/laptop-mode.service

Aug 28 18:25:41 samwise systemd[1]: Starting Laptop Mode Tools...
Aug 28 18:25:42 samwise laptop-mode[449]: Laptop mode
Aug 28 18:25:42 samwise laptop-mode[450]: enabled, not active
Aug 28 18:25:43 samwise systemd[1]: Started Laptop Mode Tools.
Aug 28 18:25:44 samwise laptop-mode[1315]: Failed.

cfr

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Registered: 2011-11-27

Posts: 7,178

Re: laptop mode tools broken? (thinkpad e545)

I think I must have been writing my post while you were posting yours. I don't get a failure as such but they are, nonetheless, broken quite badly. Interesting that you are also using a ThinkPad.

I've downgraded to 1.67-1 for now. My mouse works again and it is not so far (30 seconds or so) restarting itself.

Last edited by cfr (2015-08-29 12:03:30)

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riteshsarraf

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Re: laptop mode tools broken? (thinkpad e545)

anybody else having issues after the last update of laptop mode? i've got this:

$ systemctl status laptop-mode
● laptop-mode.service - Laptop Mode Tools
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/laptop-mode.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (exited) since Fri 2015-08-28 18:25:43 EDT; 4h 0min ago
     Docs: man:laptop_mode(8)
           man:laptop-mode.conf(8)
           http://samwel.tk/laptop_mode
  Process: 388 ExecStart=init auto (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 388 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   CGroup: /system.slice/laptop-mode.service

Aug 28 18:25:41 samwise systemd[1]: Starting Laptop Mode Tools...
Aug 28 18:25:42 samwise laptop-mode[449]: Laptop mode
Aug 28 18:25:42 samwise laptop-mode[450]: enabled, not active
Aug 28 18:25:43 samwise systemd[1]: Started Laptop Mode Tools.
Aug 28 18:25:44 samwise laptop-mode[1315]: Failed.

This is interesting. Can you figure out what exactly is causing the failure ?

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jon.pza

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Registered: 2014-07-10

Posts: 10

Re: laptop mode tools broken? (thinkpad e545)

i can't get any more useful information than what i already posted. any help for me on figuring out what the issue may be?

riteshsarraf

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Re: laptop mode tools broken? (thinkpad e545)

Here's the output on my box (running Debian). The only difference I see is "vendor preset". But I doubt it has anything to do with the failure you are getting.

rrs@learner:/$ systemctl status laptop-mode.service
● laptop-mode.service - Laptop Mode Tools
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/laptop-mode.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (exited) since Sat 2015-08-29 20:58:22 IST; 1h 4min ago
     Docs: man:laptop_mode(8)
           man:laptop-mode.conf(8)
           http://samwel.tk/laptop_mode
  Process: 8226 ExecReload=auto (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 6536 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   CGroup: /system.slice/laptop-mode.service

Aug 29 20:58:22 learner laptop-mode[6585]: enabled, active
Aug 29 20:58:22 learner systemd[1]: Started Laptop Mode Tools.
Aug 29 20:59:22 learner systemd[1]: Reloading Laptop Mode Tools.
Aug 29 20:59:22 learner systemd[1]: Reloaded Laptop Mode Tools.
Aug 29 20:59:22 learner laptop-mode[8035]: enabled, active [unchanged]
Aug 29 20:59:41 learner systemd[1]: Reloading Laptop Mode Tools.
Aug 29 20:59:42 learner systemd[1]: Reloaded Laptop Mode Tools.
Aug 29 21:00:39 learner systemd[1]: Reloading Laptop Mode Tools.
Aug 29 21:00:39 learner systemd[1]: Reloaded Laptop Mode Tools.
Aug 29 21:00:39 learner laptop-mode[8284]: enabled, active [unchanged]
2015-08-29 / 22:03:21 ♒♒♒  ☺

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riteshsarraf

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Re: laptop mode tools broken? (thinkpad e545)

Okay! That error is coming from the wireless-power module. On Arch, how are the dependencies handled ?

LMT depends on many low level tools. In this case, it depends on the wireless-tools package. You are seeing that error, either because your don't have wireless-tools installed, or else, your wifi device/driver does not support that interface.

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riteshsarraf

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Re: laptop mode tools broken? (thinkpad e545)

BTW, I've made the error msg more descriptive and meaningful. So thanks still. :-)

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jon.pza

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Re: laptop mode tools broken? (thinkpad e545)

nice! disabling the wireless power module got it started. hopefully that saves me some headaches at work monday. thanks!