[Bug 1800330] [NEW] Doesn't know about acpica-tools (acpidump, acpixtract)

Sun Oct 28 07:35:20 UTC 2018

Public bug reported:

When acpica-tools is not installed, running acpidump or acpixtract
produces no suggestions (in either Bionic or Cosmic):

$ acpixtract
acpixtract: command not found
$ apt-cache policy acpitools-ca
N: Unable to locate package acpitools-ca
$ apt-cache policy acpica-tools
acpica-tools:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 20180629-1
Version table:
20180629-1 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic/universe amd64 Packages
$ sudo apt install acpica-tools
[sudo] password for jani:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
linux-headers-4.18.0-8 linux-headers-4.18.0-8-generic linux-image-4.18.0-8-generic linux-modules-4.18.0-8-generic
linux-modules-extra-4.18.0-8-generic
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
acpica-tools
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 851 kB of archives.
After this operation, 2782 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic/universe amd64 acpica-tools amd64 20180629-1 [851 kB]
Fetched 851 kB in 1s (1622 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package acpica-tools.
(Reading database ... 207563 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../acpica-tools_20180629-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking acpica-tools (20180629-1) ...
Setting up acpica-tools (20180629-1) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/acpixtract-acpica to provide /usr/bin/acpixtract (acpixtract) in auto mode
update-alternatives: warning: skip creation of /usr/share/man/man1/acpixtract.1.gz because associated file /usr/share/man/man1/acpixtract-acpica.1 (of link group acpixtract) doesn't exist
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/acpidump-acpica to provide /usr/bin/acpidump (acpidump) in auto mode
update-alternatives: warning: skip creation of /usr/share/man/man1/acpidump.1.gz because associated file /usr/share/man/man1/acpidump-acpica.1 (of link group acpidump) doesn't exist
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.4-2) ...
$ acpidump
Could not open table file: /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/SSDT
Could not get ACPI tables, AE_ACCESS
$ acpixtract

Intel ACPI Component Architecture
ACPI Binary Table Extraction Utility version 20180629
Copyright (c) 2000 - 2018 Intel Corporation

Usage: acpixtract [option] <InputFile>
Options:
-a Extract all tables, not just DSDT/SSDT
-f Force extraction, even if there are errors
-l List table summaries, do not extract
-m Extract multiple DSDT/SSDTs to a single file
-s <signature> Extract all tables with <signature>
-v Display version information
-vd Display build date and time

Extract binary ACPI tables from text acpidump output
Default invocation extracts the DSDT and all SSDTs

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
Package: command-not-found 18.10.0~pre1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-11.12-generic 4.18.12
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Oct 28 09:31:57 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-09-30 (27 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Beta amd64 (20180930)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: command-not-found
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: command-not-found (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Tags: amd64 apport-bug cosmic

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Title:
  Doesn't know about acpica-tools (acpidump, acpixtract)

Status in command-not-found package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  When acpica-tools is not installed, running acpidump or acpixtract
  produces no suggestions (in either Bionic or Cosmic):

  $ acpixtract
  acpixtract: command not found
  $ apt-cache policy acpitools-ca
  N: Unable to locate package acpitools-ca
  $ apt-cache policy acpica-tools
  acpica-tools:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 20180629-1
  Version table:
  20180629-1 500
  500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic/universe amd64 Packages
  $ sudo apt install acpica-tools
  [sudo] password for jani:
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-headers-4.18.0-8 linux-headers-4.18.0-8-generic linux-image-4.18.0-8-generic linux-modules-4.18.0-8-generic
  linux-modules-extra-4.18.0-8-generic
  Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
  acpica-tools
  0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  Need to get 851 kB of archives.
  After this operation, 2782 kB of additional disk space will be used.
  Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic/universe amd64 acpica-tools amd64 20180629-1 [851 kB]
  Fetched 851 kB in 1s (1622 kB/s)
  Selecting previously unselected package acpica-tools.
  (Reading database ... 207563 files and directories currently installed.)
  Preparing to unpack .../acpica-tools_20180629-1_amd64.deb ...
  Unpacking acpica-tools (20180629-1) ...
  Setting up acpica-tools (20180629-1) ...
  update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/acpixtract-acpica to provide /usr/bin/acpixtract (acpixtract) in auto mode
  update-alternatives: warning: skip creation of /usr/share/man/man1/acpixtract.1.gz because associated file /usr/share/man/man1/acpixtract-acpica.1 (of link group acpixtract) doesn't exist
  update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/acpidump-acpica to provide /usr/bin/acpidump (acpidump) in auto mode
  update-alternatives: warning: skip creation of /usr/share/man/man1/acpidump.1.gz because associated file /usr/share/man/man1/acpidump-acpica.1 (of link group acpidump) doesn't exist
  Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.4-2) ...
  $ acpidump
  Could not open table file: /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/SSDT
  Could not get ACPI tables, AE_ACCESS
  $ acpixtract

  Intel ACPI Component Architecture
  ACPI Binary Table Extraction Utility version 20180629
  Copyright (c) 2000 - 2018 Intel Corporation

  Usage: acpixtract [option] <InputFile>
  Options:
  -a Extract all tables, not just DSDT/SSDT
  -f Force extraction, even if there are errors
  -l List table summaries, do not extract
  -m Extract multiple DSDT/SSDTs to a single file
  -s <signature> Extract all tables with <signature>
  -v Display version information
  -vd Display build date and time

  Extract binary ACPI tables from text acpidump output
  Default invocation extracts the DSDT and all SSDTs

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
  Package: command-not-found 18.10.0~pre1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-11.12-generic 4.18.12
  Uname: Linux 4.18.0-11-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Sun Oct 28 09:31:57 2018
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-09-30 (27 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Beta amd64 (20180930)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: command-not-found
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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