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 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1800330 Title: Doesn't know about acpica-tools (acpidump, acpixtract) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/command-not-found/+bug/1800330/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
