Re: powerd rc script failing to start after fresh build

On 04/26, Shawn Debnath wrote:
> Synced to r298678 this evening and after a reboot, powerd fails to start
> with the following error in messages:
> 
>   Apr 26 17:54:12 titan root: /etc/rc: WARNING: failed to start powerd
> 
> Manually trying to start it via service throws:
> 
>   $ sudo 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
> 
> dmesg shows:
> 
>   CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           X5670  _at_ 2.93GHz (2933.50-MHz K8-class
>   CPU)
>     Origin="GenuineIntel"  Id=0x206c2  Family=0x6  Model=0x2c  Stepping=2
>     Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
>     Features2=0x29ee3ff<SSE3,PCLMULQDQ,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,SMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,PCID,DCA,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,POPCNT,AESNI>
>     AMD Features=0x2c100800<SYSCALL,NX,Page1GB,RDTSCP,LM>
>     AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
>     VT-x: PAT,HLT,MTF,PAUSE,EPT,UG,VPID
>     TSC: P-state invariant, performance statistics
>   real memory  = 68719476736 (65536 MB)
>   avail memory = 66696982528 (63607 MB)
>   Event timer "LAPIC" quality 600
>   ACPI APIC Table: <HP     ProLiant>
>   FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 24 CPUs
>   FreeBSD/SMP: 2 package(s) x 6 core(s) x 2 hardware threads
>   random: unblocking device.
>   ACPI BIOS Warning (bug): Invalid length for FADT/Pm1aControlBlock: 32,
>   using default 16 (20150818/tbfadt-730)
>   ACPI BIOS Warning (bug): Invalid length for FADT/Pm2ControlBlock: 32,
>   using default 8 (20150818/tbfadt-730)
> 
> This wasn't the case till the update today, including the ACPI BIOS
> warning.


Forgot to add that I double checked, and cpufreq was enabled in the GENERIC kernel:

$ uname -a 
FreeBSD titan 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #0 r298678: Tue Apr 26 17:29:01 PDT 2016 sd_at_titan:/usr/home/sd/obj/usr/home/sd/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
$ cat sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC | grep cpufreq
device		cpufreq