Broken: busybox (powertop)

[eheintzmann]

Not an Upstream Issue

• I can confirm this issue is only in Soarpkgs' SBUILD

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Package is Not Disabled

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PKG_ID (Package ID)

git.busybox.net.busybox.standalone.glibc

SBUILD URL (Blob)

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pkgforge/soarpkgs/refs/heads/main/binaries/busybox/static.standalone.source.yaml

Describe the bug/issue

I have sequentially installed both available versions of powertop on my Ubuntu Touch phone (GNU/Linux aarch64) using the following commands:

soar install powertop
soar run powertop

Regardless of whether the command is executed as root or not, I consistently encounter the following error:

C-state information is not available

Wakeups-from-idle in 10 seconds: 13178951

powertop: no stats available; run as root or enable the timer_stats module

I also tried it on my laptop (Arch Linux - x86_64 - Intel Core i5), and I received the same error."

Maintainers

Azathothas (https://github.com/Azathothas)

Soar Version

soar-cli 0.5.15
[NOTE]: These values are not configurable via environment variables. They are derived from the config file or defaults.
SOAR_CONFIG=/root/.config/soar/config.toml
SOAR_BIN=/root/.local/share/soar/bin
SOAR_DB=/root/.local/share/soar/db
SOAR_CACHE=/root/.local/share/soar/cache
SOAR_PACKAGE=/root/.local/share/soar/packages
SOAR_REPOSITORIES=/root/.local/share/soar/repos

Additional Information

• powertop works correctly when I install it from the Ubuntu Focal repository (arm64)
• another user has reported that the powertop version from PkgForge does not function on his desktop

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[Azathothas]

It's probably due to the statically linked powertop being unable to dynamically load some modules needed for the stats

In the meantime, could you check if these work

• aarch64

#Logs: https://api.ghcr.pkgforge.dev/pkgforge/pkgcache/powertop/archive/sharun/alpine/powertop?tag=2.15-aarch64-linux&download=powertop.log
wget "https://api.ghcr.pkgforge.dev/pkgforge/pkgcache/powertop/archive/sharun/alpine/powertop?tag=2.15-aarch64-linux&download=powertop" -O "./powertop"
chmod +x "./powertop"
sudo "./powertop"

• x86_64

#Logs: https://api.ghcr.pkgforge.dev/pkgforge/pkgcache/powertop/archive/sharun/alpine/powertop?tag=2.15-x86_64-linux&download=powertop.log
wget "https://api.ghcr.pkgforge.dev/pkgforge/pkgcache/powertop/archive/sharun/alpine/powertop?tag=2.15-x86_64-linux&download=powertop" -O "./powertop"
chmod +x "./powertop"
sudo "./powertop"

[eheintzmann]

• aarch64
  seems to work

  messages:

  modprobe cpufreq_stats failed
  Loaded 750 prior measurements
  RAPL device for cpu 0
  RAPL device for cpu 0
  RAPL device for cpu 6
  RAPL device for cpu 6
  glob returned GLOB_ABORTED
  To show power estimates do 1707 measurement(s) connected to battery only
  

  (cpufreq stats is built in kernel, but not as module)
  CONFIG_CPU_FREQ=y
CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_STAT=y

  /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/stats directory exists:

  phablet@ubuntu-phablet:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/stats$ ls -l
  total 0
  --w------- 1 root root 4096 mai   30 17:37 reset
  -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 mai   30 17:37 time_in_state
  -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 mai   30 17:37 total_trans
  -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 mai   30 17:37 trans_table

• x86_64
  works fine

[Azathothas]

There's a sharun+wrappe (the one you confirmed works) powertop package in the repos now

$ soar search powertop
[-] powertop#sharun.wrappe.alpine.powertop:pkgcache | 2.15 | archive - Power consumption measurement and estimation tool (2.18 MiB)

I will keep this issue open until I can add a proper powertop binary
Related: leleliu008/ppkg-formula-repository-official-core#91

As for busybox's powertop, I couldn't make it work without dynamic linking