power-profile-daemon Not Working

11 October 2025, 00:50:25

Hello all,

This is my first time trying Artix. I typically use KDE Plasma for desktop, and I've installed Artix on a laptop where power management is crucial.

I installed power-profiles-daemon via command line (pamac). No issues while installing, all dependencies met. However, it did not start automatically (I can't remember if it does by default or not) even after a reboot, so I tried to start it with:

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$ sudo rc-service power-profile-daemon start

However, there was/is no service available remotely similar to power-profile-daemon.

This failing, I tried:

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$ sudo powerprofilesctl

but recieved the error message:

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Failed to communicate with power-profiles-daemon: g-dbus-error-quark: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.UPower.PowerProfiles: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1 (25)

The file in question, /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.UPower.PowerProfiles.service, contains the following:

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[D-BUS Service]
Name=org.freedesktop.UPower.PowerProfiles
Exec=/bin/false
User=root
SystemdService=power-profiles-daemon.service

I know it can work under OpenRC, as I'm migrating from Gentoo Linux where I had no issues with it. I'm just not familiar enough with Artix (or Arch, for that matter) to know how to troubleshoot it.

Any tips or suggestions for how to get this program to work on OpenRC are appreciated.

Thanks

Re: power-profile-daemon Not Working

Reply #1 – 11 October 2025, 01:24:48

You will also need to install power-profiles-daemon-openrc.

Then enable it to be started on boot with:

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rc-update add power-profiles-daemon default

Details can be found here in our wiki: https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/OpenRC

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