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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6
7 <!ENTITY upower-download-http "https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/upower/upower/-/archive/v&upower-version;/upower-v&upower-version;.tar.bz2">
8 <!ENTITY upower-download-ftp " ">
9 <!ENTITY upower-md5sum "bfd6e3275e61d7e097b53eb2b216fffa">
10 <!ENTITY upower-size "136 KB">
11 <!ENTITY upower-buildsize "6.5 MB (add 1.1 MB for tests)">
12 <!ENTITY upower-time "less than 0.1 SBU (using parallelism=4, add 0.6 SBU for tests)">
13]>
14
15<sect1 id="upower" xreflabel="UPower-&upower-version;">
16 <?dbhtml filename="upower.html"?>
17
18
19 <title>UPower-&upower-version;</title>
20
21 <indexterm zone="upower">
22 <primary sortas="a-UPower">UPower</primary>
23 </indexterm>
24
25 <sect2 role="package">
26 <title>Introduction to UPower</title>
27
28 <para>
29 The <application>UPower</application> package provides an interface for
30 enumerating power devices, listening to device events and querying history
31 and statistics. Any application or service on the system can access the
32 org.freedesktop.UPower service via the system message bus.
33 </para>
34
35 &lfs120_checked;
36
37 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
38 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
39 <listitem>
40 <para>
41 Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&upower-download-http;"/>
42 </para>
43 </listitem>
44 <listitem>
45 <para>
46 Download (FTP): <ulink url="&upower-download-ftp;"/>
47 </para>
48 </listitem>
49 <listitem>
50 <para>
51 Download MD5 sum: &upower-md5sum;
52 </para>
53 </listitem>
54 <listitem>
55 <para>
56 Download size: &upower-size;
57 </para>
58 </listitem>
59 <listitem>
60 <para>
61 Estimated disk space required: &upower-buildsize;
62 </para>
63 </listitem>
64 <listitem>
65 <para>
66 Estimated build time: &upower-time;
67 </para>
68 </listitem>
69 </itemizedlist>
70
71 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">UPower Dependencies</bridgehead>
72
73 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
74 <para role="required">
75 <xref linkend="libgudev"/> and
76 <xref linkend="libusb"/>
77 </para>
78
79 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (Required if building GNOME)</bridgehead>
80 <para role="optional">
81 <xref linkend="gobject-introspection"/>
82 </para>
83
84 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
85 <para role="optional">
86 <xref linkend="gtk-doc"/>,
87 <xref linkend="libxslt"/>,
88 <xref linkend="docbook-xsl"/>,
89 <xref linkend="pygobject3"/>,
90 <xref linkend="python-dbusmock"/>,
91 <xref linkend="umockdev"/> (for part of the test suite), and
92 <ulink url="https://libimobiledevice.org/">libimobiledevice</ulink>
93 </para>
94
95 </sect2>
96
97 <sect2 role="kernel" id="upower-kernel" revision="systemd">
98 <!-- With UPower-0.9.11's hardening of the systemd unit file,
99 User Namespace Support (CONFIG_USER_NS) is now required. Without this,
100 you will get "ERROR 213/USER" out of a 'systemctl start upower'. -->
101 <title>Kernel Configuration</title>
102
103 <para>
104 Enable the following options in the kernel configuration and recompile the
105 kernel if necessary:
106 </para>
107
108 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
109 href="upower-systemd-kernel.xml"/>
110
111 <indexterm zone="upower upower-kernel">
112 <primary sortas="d-upower">upower</primary>
113 </indexterm>
114 </sect2>
115
116 <sect2 role="installation">
117 <title>Installation of UPower</title>
118
119 <para>
120 First, remove an unneeded dependency from a test:
121 </para>
122
123<screen><userinput>sed '/parse_version/d' -i src/linux/integration-test.py</userinput></screen>
124
125 <para>
126 Install <application>UPower</application> by running the following
127 commands:
128 </para>
129
130<screen revision="sysv"><userinput>mkdir build &amp;&amp;
131cd build &amp;&amp;
132
133meson setup .. \
134 --prefix=/usr \
135 --buildtype=release \
136 -Dgtk-doc=false \
137 -Dman=false \
138 -Dsystemdsystemunitdir=no \
139 -Dudevrulesdir=/usr/lib/udev/rules.d &amp;&amp;
140ninja</userinput></screen>
141
142<screen revision="systemd"><userinput>mkdir build &amp;&amp;
143cd build &amp;&amp;
144meson setup .. \
145 --prefix=/usr \
146 --buildtype=release \
147 -Dgtk-doc=false \
148 -Dman=false &amp;&amp;
149ninja</userinput></screen>
150
151 <!-- On my system with LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8, one test attempted to compare
152 Chinese error message with English references and failed.
153 LC_ALL=C fixes the problem. -->
154 <!-- Headphone hotplug (bluetooth and AUX) was tested and seems to work
155 okay even with the test faliures. Maybe it's wants headphones plugged
156 in during the test? Regardless, it can be safely ignored. -->
157 <!-- On a 32-bit machine, the following test failure can be observed:
158 ======================================================================
159 FAIL: test_battery_energy_charge_mixed (__main__.Tests.test_battery_energy_charge_mixed)
160 battery which reports both current charge and energy
161
162 self.assertEqual(self.get_dbus_dev_property(bat0_up, 'Percentage'), 40.0)
163 AssertionError: 40.00000000000001 != 40.0
164
165 This is known upstream as https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/upower/upower/-/issues/251
166 Not sure if this is an actual problem, but it seems to start and work
167 properly -renodr -->
168
169 <para>
170 To test the results, issue: <command>LC_ALL=C ninja test</command>. Some
171 checks may not pass due to missing files. The test suite should be run
172 from a local GUI session started with dbus-launch. On 32-bit machines,
173 one test will fail due to rounding errors:
174 <filename>Tests.test_battery_energy_charge_mixed</filename>. On some
175 systems, two tests relating to the headphone hotplug feature are known
176 to fail. Those can be safely ignored since the functionality still works.
177 </para>
178
179 <para>
180 Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
181 </para>
182
183<screen role="root"><userinput>ninja install</userinput></screen>
184
185 </sect2>
186
187 <sect2 role="commands">
188 <title>Command Explanations</title>
189
190 <para>
191 <parameter>-Dgtk-doc=false</parameter>: Prevents building the
192 documentation. Remove this if you have <application>GTK-Doc</application>
193 installed and wish to build the documentation.
194 </para>
195
196 <para>
197 <parameter>-Dman=false</parameter>: Prevents building the
198 manual pages. Remove this if you have <xref linkend='libxslt'/> and
199 <xref linkend='docbook-xsl'/> installed and wish to build the manual
200 pages.
201 </para>
202
203 <para revision="sysv">
204 <parameter>-Dsystemdsystemunitdir=no</parameter>: Removes
205 the dependency on <application>systemd</application>.
206 </para>
207
208 <para revision="sysv">
209 <parameter>-Dudevrulesdir=/usr/lib/udev/rules.d</parameter>: Tells
210 the build system where to install <application>udev</application>
211 rules because the information is missing in
212 <filename>/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libudev.pc</filename>
213 </para>
214
215 </sect2>
216
217 <sect2 role="configuration" revision="systemd">
218
219 <title>Configuring UPower</title>
220<!-- timer statistics have been removed from kernel (since 4.11)
221 I do not know if there is a replacement. See
222 https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9561519
223 and https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100626
224
225 <para>
226 To use the command <command>upower -w</command> for information about
227 processor wakeups (this command is used by <phrase revision="sysv">
228 <ulink url="&gnome-download-http;/gnome-power-manager/">gnome-power-manager</ulink></phrase><phrase revision="systemd"><xref linkend="gnome-power-manager"/></phrase>)
229 you need to enable CONFIG_TIMER_STATS. This is achieved in
230 <command>make menuconfig</command> by going to the &apos;kernel-hacking&apos;
231 menu and selecting &apos;Collect kernel timers statistics&apos;.
232 </para>
233-->
234 <sect3 id="upower-init">
235 <title>Systemd Unit</title>
236
237 <para>
238 To start the <command>UPower</command> service at boot,
239 enable the previously installed systemd unit by
240 running the following command as the
241 <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
242 </para>
243
244 <indexterm zone="upower upower-init">
245 <primary sortas="f-upower">upower</primary>
246 </indexterm>
247
248<screen role="root"><userinput>systemctl enable upower</userinput></screen>
249
250 </sect3>
251
252 </sect2>
253
254 <sect2 role="content">
255 <title>Contents</title>
256
257 <segmentedlist>
258 <segtitle>Installed Program<!--
259See below... <phrase revision="systemd">s</phrase>--></segtitle>
260 <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
261 <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
262
263 <seglistitem>
264 <seg>
265 upower
266<!-- <phrase revision="systemd"> and upowerd</phrase>
267Upowerd should not be listed, as it is in /usr/libexec, and is not supposed
268to be run by a user. Furthermore, upowerd is also in sysv, and there is no
269reason so single out systemd here. -->
270 </seg>
271 <seg>
272 libupower-glib.so
273 </seg>
274 <seg>
275 /etc/UPower,
276 /usr/include/libupower-glib, and
277 /var/lib/upower
278 </seg>
279 </seglistitem>
280 </segmentedlist>
281
282 <variablelist>
283 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
284 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
285 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
286
287 <varlistentry id="upower-prog">
288 <term><command>upower</command></term>
289 <listitem>
290 <para>
291 is the <application>UPower</application> command line tool
292 </para>
293 <indexterm zone="upower upower-prog">
294 <primary sortas="b-upower">upower</primary>
295 </indexterm>
296 </listitem>
297 </varlistentry>
298<!-- See above
299 <varlistentry id="upowerd" revision="systemd">
300 <term><command>upowerd</command></term>
301 <listitem>
302 <para>
303 is the <application>UPower</application> Daemon. It provides the
304 org.freedesktop.UPower service on the system message bus.
305 </para>
306 <indexterm zone="upower upowerd">
307 <primary sortas="b-upowerd">upowerd</primary>
308 </indexterm>
309 </listitem>
310 </varlistentry>-->
311
312 <varlistentry id="libupower-glib">
313 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libupower-glib.so</filename></term>
314 <listitem>
315 <para>
316 contains the <application>UPower</application> API functions
317 </para>
318 <indexterm zone="upower libupower-glib">
319 <primary sortas="c-libupower-glib">libupower-glib.so</primary>
320 </indexterm>
321 </listitem>
322 </varlistentry>
323
324 </variablelist>
325
326 </sect2>
327
328</sect1>
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