On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 14:22, Fulko Hew <fulko....@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've changed the subject line to be more in line with the
> current discussion...
>
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 11:14 AM Fulko Hew <fulko....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 12:57 PM Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
> ... snip ...
>
>> Quite a lot of thermal management is split up into different areas:
>>> CPU itself, ACPI, logic board firmware, kernel, and user space.
>>>
>>> I suggest making sure the logic board firmware is up to date as a first
>>> step.
>>>
>>> sensors isn't a default package. New in Fedora 33, thermald is
>>> installed and enabled by default.
>>>
>>
>> I have run out of things to try, so I started to pursue the thermald
>> issue.
>>
>> You say it's part of F33:
>> - and yet it is not part of the KDE spin.
>> - so I installed both thermald and thermald_monitor
>> - installing thermald doesn't start the service, so I started it manually
>> - installing thermald didn't create its config file,  looking at it's man
>> page
>>   I looked for possible config files... there are none.
>> - The man page talk about a config file generator tool called dptfxtract
>>   Also not part of those packages! and so not installed.
>>
>>   Following the man page leads me to a reference to github, where it tells
>>   you, you also need acpidump. (I found that in package acpica-tools,
>> downloaded it
>>   and ran it as per those instructions, but I'm still stopped by the
>> missing dptfxtract.)
>>
>> So, I can't see how thermald is part of F33.
>>
>
> Following up on my own email...
>
> I downloaded the F33 Workstation spin, and ran it 'live'.
> Thermald is part of it (unlike it being missing on the KDE spin).
> Looking at: 'service thermald status' I see:
>
> Dec 04 17:11:00 fedora systemd[1]: Starting Thermal Daemon Service...
> Dec 04 17:11:02 fedora systemd[1]: Started Thermal Daemon Service.
> Dec 04 17:11:02 fedora thermald[1212]: Found unsupported APAT version 1
> Dec 04 17:11:02 fedora systemd[1]: thermald.service: Main process exited,
> code=dumped, status=5/TRAP
> Dec 04 17:11:02 fedora systemd[1]: thermald.service: Failed with result
> 'core-dump'.
>
> I tried Googling for that error, but turned up empty.
>
> I did manage to run it using following (after adding 'liveuser' to the
> 'power' group):
>
> sudo thermald --no-daemon --dbus-enable --loglevel=debug
>

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1894178 is for a different
problem, but
has example debug logs and has resulted in a newer version of thermald than
you
get with a "live" distro.   The recommendation was to run:

* sudo killall -9 thermald"

* sudo thermald --no-daemon --adaptive --loglevel=debug



-- 
George N. White III
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