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TLP - Optimize Linux Laptop Battery Life
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Installing TLP made my Ubuntu system unusable/unadministrable #733

Closed wwone closed 3 months ago

wwone commented 3 months ago

[x] I've read and accepted the Bug Reporting Howto [x] I've provided all required tlp-stat outputs via Gist (see below)

Describe the bug

A clear and concise description of what the bug is.

Expected behavior

I accidentally installed tlp on a NUC11, which is a mini-pc that does NOT have a battery.

A clear and concise description of what you expected to happen.

I expected it to be a no-op, and, realizing my error, I would be able to uninstall it.

HOWEVER, the presence of this running daemon stopped nearly all Linux operations. In particular it prevented me from running "sudo", so I could NOT stop anything, fix anything, or uninstall anything.

I could not run most GUI programs, especially browsers. The internet ground to a halt.

The boot and startup-shutdown processes on the machine hung massively . A manual forced power-off was necessary in order to reboot. Until I tried forced power-off, reboots were hanging 10-20 minutes each time.

To Reproduce

I would NOT recommend this product on a non-laptop, and I never want to ever reproduce this experience.

Perhaps a warning on the FAQ about installing on a non-laptop machine might be in order?

Steps to reproduce the unexpected behavior:

  1. Does the problem occur on battery or AC or both?
  2. Actions to reproduce the behaviour
  3. Shell commands entered and their output
  4. Full output of tlp-stat via https://gist.github.com/ for all matching cases of 1 (not as file attachment, no screenshots)

Additional context

I was able to run Linux from a thumb drive. I removed the file /usr/sbin/tlp, while running under sudo in the "demo" system. All of the problems melted away. I was able to reboot my installed Linux system without delay or problems. I was able to run: "sudo apt remove tlp". The product is no longer on my system.

Linux NUC1 5.15.0-101-generic #111~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Mon Mar 11 15:44:43 UTC 2024 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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linrunner commented 3 months ago

Hi, I'm sorry that you had such a bad experience. However, I do not share your opinion that TLP is generally not suitable for non-laptops.