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and subject line Re: switcheroo-control: Failed to start Switcheroo Control
Proxy service
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regarding switcheroo-control: Failed to start Switcheroo Control Proxy service
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: switcheroo-control
Version: 1.2-2
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
Switcheroo does not start.
I tried, without success:
$ systemctl restart switcheroo-control
Here is the output of journalctl -xe:
août 14 01:07:20 ARRAKIS systemd[1]: Starting Switcheroo Control Proxy
service...
-- Subject: L'unité (unit) switcheroo-control.service a commencé à démarrer
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- L'unité (unit) switcheroo-control.service a commencé à démarrer.
août 14 01:07:20 ARRAKIS switcheroo-cont[4510]: switcheroo-control could not
query vga_switcheroo status: Operation not permitted
août 14 01:07:20 ARRAKIS systemd[1]: switcheroo-control.service: Main process
exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
-- Subject: Unit process exited
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- An ExecStart= process belonging to unit switcheroo-control.service has
exited.
--
-- The process' exit code is 'exited' and its exit status is 1.
août 14 01:07:20 ARRAKIS systemd[1]: switcheroo-control.service: Failed with
result 'exit-code'.
-- Subject: Unit failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- The unit switcheroo-control.service has entered the 'failed' state with
result 'exit-code'.
août 14 01:07:20 ARRAKIS systemd[1]: Failed to start Switcheroo Control Proxy
service.
-- Subject: L'unité (unit) switcheroo-control.service a échoué
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- L'unité (unit) switcheroo-control.service a échoué, avec le résultat failed.
Best regards
PS
I cannot read the switch file:
$ sudo cat /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch
cat: /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch: Opération non permise
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable'), (50, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages switcheroo-control depends on:
ii libc6 2.28-10
ii libglib2.0-0 2.61.2-1
switcheroo-control recommends no packages.
switcheroo-control suggests no packages.
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Package: switcheroo-control
Version: 2.1-1
Dear Maintainer,
I can now start Switcheroo correctly, in sid / bullseye.
Best regards
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages switcheroo-control depends on:
ii libc6 2.30-4
ii libglib2.0-0 2.64.1-1
ii libgudev-1.0-0 233-1
switcheroo-control recommends no packages.
switcheroo-control suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
--- End Message ---
