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 -- no debconf information