Powertop does not display correctly

[Pierre van Male]

After installation, Powertop was working properly, but soon later, it stopped displaying correctly in the terminal.

All the processes are displayed one after the other like this:
"/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnl-genl-3.so.200.5.2
                                                         7f70d157e000-7f70d157f000 rw-p 00004000 08:01 13491"

and the terminal stopped breaking the line: entering enter does not make the prompt swith to a new line.

Since Powertop was working at first, I expect that I broke it with a later operation. I made some modifications linked to power consumption (including extra parameters for grub), but a priori, I do not see any link.

See the attachement for better understanding...

Best regards,
Pierre

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: powertop 2.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-19.30-generic 3.5.7
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-19-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu9
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Dec 16 21:24:10 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: powertop
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Pierre van Male (vmalep)]

If I am not mistaken, I made the following modifications to the system after having installed and run powertop without problem:
1) added the following parameters to grub: "pcie_aspm=force i915.i915_enable_rc6=1 i915.lvds_downclock=1 i915.i915_enable_fbc=1"
2) installed the following packages: tlp tlp-rdw tp-smapi-dkms smartmontools ethtool

I removed them and restarted the system, but the problem persists.

I am attaching the html output of powertop that shows that powertop works properly (but does not displays properly in the terminal).

BR
Pierre

[Pierre van Male (vmalep)]

I tried again today (22.12.2012) and this time, powertop is displayed correctly. I am hence unable to reproduce the bug again and therefore, I moved it to invalid state.

BR
Pierre

[Pierre van Male (vmalep)]

Sorry, the problem reappeared after reboot... Moved to new and waiting instruction to better diagnose it.