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Powertop can't read saved_parameters.powertop
Hello,
H have Powertop and calibrated it with sudo powertop -c then rebooted to see it would start automatically (I already done sudo systemctl enable powertop way before. When I did a sudo systemctl status powertop` I get :
sudo systemctl status powertop ✔ 15:15:37 ▓▒░
○ powertop.service - Extend the battery life of laptop
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/powertop.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
Active: inactive (dead) since Wed 2025-09-03 15:14:36 CEST; 1min 7s ago
Invocation: ae1672b75b914c01b0a9089c9f4f1c13
Process: 837 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/powertop --auto-tune (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 837 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Mem peak: 79.1M
CPU: 3.290s
sept. 03 15:14:19 lenoarch2025 powertop[837]: glob returned GLOB_ABORTED
sept. 03 15:14:34 lenoarch2025 powertop[837]: Leaving PowerTOP
sept. 03 15:14:36 lenoarch2025 powertop[837]: Cannot load from file /var/cache/powertop/saved_parameters.powertop
sept. 03 15:14:36 lenoarch2025 powertop[837]: File will be loaded after taking minimum number of measurement(s) with battery only
sept. 03 15:14:36 lenoarch2025 powertop[837]: Cannot load from file /var/cache/powertop/saved_parameters.powertop
sept. 03 15:14:36 lenoarch2025 powertop[837]: File will be loaded after taking minimum number of measurement(s) with battery only
sept. 03 15:14:36 lenoarch2025 powertop[837]: To show power estimates do 188 measurement(s) connected to battery only
sept. 03 15:14:36 lenoarch2025 systemd[1]: powertop.service: Deactivated successfully.
sept. 03 15:14:36 lenoarch2025 systemd[1]: Finished Extend the battery life of laptop.
sept. 03 15:14:36 lenoarch2025 systemd[1]: powertop.service: Consumed 3.290s CPU time, 79.1M memory peak.
Apparently it cannot see /var/cache/powertop/saved_parameters.powertop. I checked, the file exists with root:root and -rw-r--r--. I don't understand why it can't load the file.