cannot restart pm-profiler daemon: stopping CPU?

[konsultor]

Hi,
My notebook's CPU seems to halt when there is no user activity (keyboard or mouse). The clock display stops, and doesn't catch up so the time falls behind so far that the ntp daemon sees a delta larger than allowed by the sanity check.
Tried to set the power management to "low latency" but there's an error message: "cannot restart pm-profiler daemon." I assume this means that PM is stuck in some power-saver level, and may be stopping the CPU. What package would be safe to reinstall with the goal of getting the pm daemon going again? Other suggestions most welcome.

Thanks,

konsultor wrote:

> My notebook's CPU seems to halt when there is no user activity
> (keyboard or mouse).

Do you have enabled any suspend or hibernate configuration to come up after
user inactivity?

> The clock display stops, and doesn't catch up so
> the time falls behind so far that the ntp daemon sees a delta larger
> than allowed by the sanity check.

Can you see any activity under /var/log/messages or the system also stops
logging events?

> Tried to set the power management to "low latency" but there's an error
> message: "cannot restart pm-profiler daemon." I assume this means that
> PM is stuck in some power-saver level, and may be stopping the CPU.
> What package would be safe to reinstall with the goal of getting the pm
> daemon going again? Other suggestions most welcome.

It seems your system have problems with power management. You should have
more information on /var/log/messages and /var/log/warn.

Greetings,

--
Camaleón

[konsultor]

Hi Camaleón,

Both log files (warn and messages) exist but appear empty in Kate.

Yast offers only four selections on one pull-down menu for power settings; haven't input any other configurations for power management.

I'm on the verge of replacing openSUSE 11.1 with SES 10 to get things working again. Any insight on that move?

Thanks.

konsultor wrote:

> Both log files (warn and messages) exist but appear empty in Kate.

You must be "root" to read that files :-)

> Yast offers only four selections on one pull-down menu for power
> settings; haven't input any other configurations for power management.

Is your computer a bit old? For instance, 2 or 3 years... older computers
may have problems with power management and profiles.

> I'm on the verge of replacing openSUSE 11.1 with SES 10 to get things
> working again. Any insight on that move?

You mean SLES 10 or SLED 10?

SLES is a "server" focused release, while SLED is targeted to be a "desktop"
OS. Both are from Novell.

The main difference (technically speaking) between openSUSE and SLES/SLED is
that openSUSE includes more recent versions of any piece of software
(kernel and applications) so new hardware tends to work better with
openSUSE while old hardware usually goes better with SLED/SLES counterpart.

Note that Novell recently launched SLES and SLED 11 (based on openSUSE 11.1)

Both (openSUSE and SLED/SLES) are a good option. And a good point in favor
of Novell distributions is that support last more than 2 years ;-)

Greetings,

--
Camaleón

[konsultor]

Have installed SLES 10, seems to work fine. That is the server version, with KDE.