Failed to start powerd

[nickc1964]

Hi All,

My FreeNAS system was built many years ago on FreeNAS8 and was upgraded to v9. It spent many years on v9 until the boot drive failed recently. So I bought a new SSD and did a fresh install of 11.2-U5.

Everything went really well apart from I now get the following error on boot:

Aug 28 13:19:07 freenas root: /etc/rc: WARNING: failed to start powerd

And if I try to start powerd:

root@freenas:/var/log # service powerd status
powerd is not running.
root@freenas:/var/log # service powerd start
Starting powerd.
powerd: no cpufreq(4) support -- aborting: No such file or directory
/etc/rc.d/powerd: WARNING: failed to start powerd

I don't believe I had this issue prior to the upgrade.

The CPU is an Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 underclocked to 2 Ghz (6 x 333) so I set it back to the default 3Ghz (9 x 333) but this has made no difference.

MB: Gigabyte 965P-DQ6
RAM: 8GB - I know this low but the NAS does nothing apart from provide 4 CIFS shares and ZFS syncs to another FreeNAS server

I'm grateful for any advice on this

Thanks

Nick

 

[dlavigne]

I assume you restored your saved config from an earlier version? If so, you can ignore the message as that feature was deprecated in 11.2: https://redmine.ixsystems.com/issues/49398.

 

[nickc1964]

I assume you restored your saved config from an earlier version? If so, you can ignore the message as that feature was deprecated in 11.2: https://redmine.ixsystems.com/issues/49398.

Exactly that - I had a config saved from v9 and it (surprisingly) imported it and it just worked :D

What is the best way to remove powerd?

 

[dlavigne]

I assume that message isn't spamming your logs? If so, you can just ignore it. Otherwise you'd have to manually muck with the config db to remove it (as the config didn't go through the migration process).

 

[nickc1964]

No, it just pops up in the log every now and then. So I'll just leave it, and thanks for the quick response