5t6y
September 5th, 2011, 05:08 AM
Hi, I just installed Ubuntu 10.10 on a laptop. I'm trying to get cpu scaling working. All the guides say to reconfigure gnome-applets by running 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure gnome-applets' so that the cpu frequency scaling applet can control the cpu.
Problem is, when I run the reconfigure, I get absolutely no output from the command, it doesn't let me reconfigure anything and just exits out. I saw that there was a -f option to 'force' a reconfigure, and running that I get:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -f gnome-applets
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Gnome-applets
debconf: (Bareword "Debconf::FrontEnd::Gnome" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at (eval 24) line 3.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Noninteractive
/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: please specify a package to reconfigure
Any thoughts on how to fix this?
Another thing I'm trying is to user cpufreq-set. I can change the governor to userspace and that seems to work, and then I tell it to set the frequency, and it gives no errors, but has no effect on the frequency.
Thanks for any help!
[EDIT] Also, I don't know if this is any help, but this is every mention of gnome-applets in /var/log/dpkg.log
cat /var/log/dpkg.log | grep gnome-applets
2010-10-07 16:00:48 install gnome-applets-data <none> 2.30.0-3ubuntu3
2010-10-07 16:00:48 status half-installed gnome-applets-data 2.30.0-3ubuntu3
2010-10-07 16:00:49 status unpacked gnome-applets-data 2.30.0-3ubuntu3
2010-10-07 16:00:49 status unpacked gnome-applets-data 2.30.0-3ubuntu3
2010-10-07 16:01:36 install gnome-applets <none> 2.30.0-3ubuntu3
2010-10-07 16:01:36 status half-installed gnome-applets 2.30.0-3ubuntu3
2010-10-07 16:01:36 status unpacked gnome-applets 2.30.0-3ubuntu3
2010-10-07 16:01:36 status unpacked gnome-applets 2.30.0-3ubuntu3
2010-10-07 16:10:46 configure gnome-applets-data 2.30.0-3ubuntu3 2.30.0-3ubuntu3
2010-10-07 16:10:46 status unpacked gnome-applets-data 2.30.0-3ubuntu3
2010-10-07 16:10:46 status unpacked gnome-applets-data 2.30.0-3ubuntu3
2010-10-07 16:10:46 status half-configured gnome-applets-data 2.30.0-3ubuntu3
2010-10-07 16:10:46 status installed gnome-applets-data 2.30.0-3ubuntu3
2010-10-07 16:15:51 configure gnome-applets 2.30.0-3ubuntu3 2.30.0-3ubuntu3
2010-10-07 16:15:51 status unpacked gnome-applets 2.30.0-3ubuntu3
2010-10-07 16:15:51 status half-configured gnome-applets 2.30.0-3ubuntu3
2010-10-07 16:15:51 status installed gnome-applets 2.30.0-3ubuntu3
Problem is, when I run the reconfigure, I get absolutely no output from the command, it doesn't let me reconfigure anything and just exits out. I saw that there was a -f option to 'force' a reconfigure, and running that I get:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -f gnome-applets
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Gnome-applets
debconf: (Bareword "Debconf::FrontEnd::Gnome" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at (eval 24) line 3.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Noninteractive
/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: please specify a package to reconfigure
Any thoughts on how to fix this?
Another thing I'm trying is to user cpufreq-set. I can change the governor to userspace and that seems to work, and then I tell it to set the frequency, and it gives no errors, but has no effect on the frequency.
Thanks for any help!
[EDIT] Also, I don't know if this is any help, but this is every mention of gnome-applets in /var/log/dpkg.log
cat /var/log/dpkg.log | grep gnome-applets
2010-10-07 16:00:48 install gnome-applets-data <none> 2.30.0-3ubuntu3
2010-10-07 16:00:48 status half-installed gnome-applets-data 2.30.0-3ubuntu3
2010-10-07 16:00:49 status unpacked gnome-applets-data 2.30.0-3ubuntu3
2010-10-07 16:00:49 status unpacked gnome-applets-data 2.30.0-3ubuntu3
2010-10-07 16:01:36 install gnome-applets <none> 2.30.0-3ubuntu3
2010-10-07 16:01:36 status half-installed gnome-applets 2.30.0-3ubuntu3
2010-10-07 16:01:36 status unpacked gnome-applets 2.30.0-3ubuntu3
2010-10-07 16:01:36 status unpacked gnome-applets 2.30.0-3ubuntu3
2010-10-07 16:10:46 configure gnome-applets-data 2.30.0-3ubuntu3 2.30.0-3ubuntu3
2010-10-07 16:10:46 status unpacked gnome-applets-data 2.30.0-3ubuntu3
2010-10-07 16:10:46 status unpacked gnome-applets-data 2.30.0-3ubuntu3
2010-10-07 16:10:46 status half-configured gnome-applets-data 2.30.0-3ubuntu3
2010-10-07 16:10:46 status installed gnome-applets-data 2.30.0-3ubuntu3
2010-10-07 16:15:51 configure gnome-applets 2.30.0-3ubuntu3 2.30.0-3ubuntu3
2010-10-07 16:15:51 status unpacked gnome-applets 2.30.0-3ubuntu3
2010-10-07 16:15:51 status half-configured gnome-applets 2.30.0-3ubuntu3
2010-10-07 16:15:51 status installed gnome-applets 2.30.0-3ubuntu3