cpupower.service Fails to Start on VM
(Doc ID 2531027.1)
Last updated on NOVEMBER 23, 2021
Applies to:
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later Oracle VM - Version 3.0.1 and later Information in this document applies to any platform.
Symptoms
cpupower.service fails to start on VM.
Changes
when starting cpupower.service ,it shows errors like:
# systemctl start cpupower.service Job for cpupower.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status cpupower.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. # # systemctl status cpupower.service -l ● cpupower.service - Configure CPU power related settings Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/cpupower.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2019-04-16 04:14:44 UTC; 4min 8s ago Process: 742 ExecStart=/usr/bin/cpupower $CPUPOWER_START_OPTS (code=exited, status=237) Main PID: 742 (code=exited, status=237)
Apr 16 04:14:44 hostname cpupower[742]: - Do you have proper administration rights? (super-user?) Apr 16 04:14:44 hostname cpupower[742]: - Is the governor you requested available and modprobed? Apr 16 04:14:44 hostname cpupower[742]: - Trying to set an invalid policy? Apr 16 04:14:44 hostname cpupower[742]: - Trying to set a specific frequency, but userspace governor is not available, Apr 16 04:14:44 hostname cpupower[742]: for example because of hardware which cannot be set to a specific frequency Apr 16 04:14:44 hostname cpupower[742]: or because the userspace governor isn't loaded? Apr 16 04:14:44 hostname systemd[1]: cpupower.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=237/n/a Apr 16 04:14:44 hostname systemd[1]: Failed to start Configure CPU power related settings. Apr 16 04:14:44 hostname systemd[1]: Unit cpupower.service entered failed state. Apr 16 04:14:44 hostname systemd[1]: cpupower.service failed. #
Cause
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