Package: powertop
Version: 2.8-1
Severity: normal

Powertop is looking for, but cannot find,
/var/cache/powertop/saved_parameters.powertop

Here is an example

  # powertop
  Loaded 100 prior measurements
  Cannot load from file /var/cache/powertop/saved_parameters.powertop
  File will be loaded after taking minimum number of measurement(s) with 
battery only 
 [etc.]

The following seemed to fix it:

# cd /var/cache/powertop
# ln -s saved_results.powertop saved_parameters.powertop

Now running powertop doesn't produce the warning:

  # powertop
  Loaded 102 prior measurements
  RAPL device for cpu 0
  [etc.]

-Sanjoy

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages powertop depends on:
ii  libc6             2.22-7
ii  libgcc1           1:5.3.1-14
ii  libncurses5       6.0+20160319-1
ii  libncursesw5      6.0+20160319-1
ii  libnl-3-200       3.2.27-1
ii  libnl-genl-3-200  3.2.27-1
ii  libpci3           1:3.3.1-1.1
ii  libstdc++6        5.3.1-14
ii  libtinfo5         6.0+20160319-1

powertop recommends no packages.

Versions of packages powertop suggests:
pn  cpufrequtils       <none>
ii  laptop-mode-tools  1.69.2-1

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