I can't run the daemon

[leillo1975]

When I execute "sudo ./bootstrap.sh" I have the following error:
Failed to connect to bus: Non hai tal ficheiro ou directorio (in English: There is no such file or directory)

You can see the process in terminal:

sudo ./bootstrap.sh
+ meson --prefix=/usr build -Dwith-systemd-user-unit-dir=/etc/systemd/user
Trying to run Meson on a build directory that has already been configured.
If you want to build it, just run your build command (e.g. ninja) inside the
build directory. Meson will autodetect any changes in your setup and regenerate
itself as required. Though it shouldn't be necessary, running ninja reconfigure
will force Meson to regenerate the build files.

If you want to change option values, use meson configure instead.
+ cd build
+ ninja
ninja: no work to do.
+ set +x
Install to /usr? [Yy] y
+ sudo ninja install
[0/1] Installing files.
Installing lib/libgamemode.so to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgamemode.so
Installing lib/libgamemodeauto.so to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgamemodeauto.so
Installing daemon/gamemoded to /usr/bin/gamemoded
Installing daemon/cpugovctl to /usr/libexec/cpugovctl
Installing gamemode_client.h to /usr/include/
Installing /home/leo/gamemode/data/gamemoded.1 to /usr/share/man/man1
Installing /home/leo/gamemode/build/data/gamemoded.service to /etc/systemd/user
Installing /home/leo/gamemode/build/data/com.feralinteractive.GameMode.policy to /usr/share/polkit-1/actions
+ set +x
Enable and run the daemon? [Yy] y
+ systemctl --user daemon-reload
Failed to connect to bus: Non hai tal ficheiro ou directorio

I use Ubuntu 17.10

[CasperAlant]

Run without sudo. Only use ./bootstrap.sh.

[leillo1975]

Without sudo:

+ meson --prefix=/usr build -Dwith-systemd-user-unit-dir=/etc/systemd/user
Trying to run Meson on a build directory that has already been configured.
If you want to build it, just run your build command (e.g. ninja) inside the
build directory. Meson will autodetect any changes in your setup and regenerate
itself as required. Though it shouldn't be necessary, running ninja reconfigure
will force Meson to regenerate the build files.

If you want to change option values, use meson configure instead.
+ cd build
+ ninja
ninja: error: opening build log: Permission denied

[CasperAlant]

The files you created when you ran sudo ./bootstrap is now owned by root and is preventing you from running the installer normally.
Suggestions:

1. Try completing the installation manually:

systemctl --user daemon-reload
systemctl --user enable gamemoded
systemctl --user start gamemoded
systemctl --user status gamemoded

2. Clean up. Remove the installer directory and reclone. Also remove any files created by the installer:

Installing lib/libgamemode.so to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgamemode.so
Installing lib/libgamemodeauto.so to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgamemodeauto.so
Installing daemon/gamemoded to /usr/bin/gamemoded
Installing daemon/cpugovctl to /usr/libexec/cpugovctl
Installing gamemode_client.h to /usr/include/
Installing /home/casper/Projects/gamemode/data/gamemoded.1 to /usr/share/man/man1
Installing /home/casper/Projects/gamemode/build/data/gamemoded.service to /etc/systemd/user
Installing /home/casper/Projects/gamemode/build/data/com.feralinteractive.GameMode.policy to /usr/share/polkit-1/actions

Also, I literally started using this library 20 minutes ago, so please take anything I say with a grain of salt.

[CasperAlant]

Ignore my second suggestion. First one should work.

[leillo1975]

It works, thanks a lot!. Now when I use it with a game the governor is set in performance

[lemmy04]

do i see this right? the daemon has to be built and run by the user who will run games?

... that is so not unix...

Please make it possible to install and run the daemon system wide, and have some control which users can talk to it, for example by limiting to members of a certain group.

[ikeydoherty]

@lemmy04 it is installable as a system wide daemon, operating on the system or user dbus socket, allowing it to run as root or user. Access control can be implemented manually with other measures such as confinement, or LSMs such as SMACK and SELinux, which I would argue fall well out of the scope of this daemon.

Also let's not pretend we're talking about UNIX here, this is for Linux.

[ikeydoherty]

Further, if you wanna run as a system wide "systemd-less" daemon, you can compile with -Dwith-systemd=false: https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode/blob/master/meson_options.txt#L1

Note however you're better off just running with the defaults. You can tweak the CLI args to run it as you wish, but then lifecycle management is much more difficult. With the defaults you get a usermode daemon that you can start/stop easily with systemctl and log integration, and a minimised risk of privilege escalation as only the cpugovctl helper is actually run with an elevated uid.

Plus, user configs are becoming a thing. :)

[lemmy04]

how do you tell it to install system wide, and use the system bus? on openSUSE when i build the "normal way" i get the same "no such file or directory" error when i try to start the daemon...

[mgrep]

What advantage does this have in OpenSuse over the following command ?

sudo cpupower frequency-set -g performance

[mdiluz]

Closing this off as I have merged #13

@lemmy04 That sounds like a different issue to be reported separately.

@mgrep this will do that automatically for each game and will put the governor back afterward to save on energy. More details in the README