You need to use the --, otherwise the command does not work as expected.
Ok, i never had done this before and never recognized any problem with the variable settings...
So, i have to change my personal manual...
Thank you for your fix with 8.1.0-1 !!!
Best regards
prtigger
As of Fri Feb 13 @ 2:40pm, I am still getting cpupower errors on a clean install.
I tried:
- go into System, Power, Settings, "performance", SAVE, apply changes, and reboot
- still no OVM web gui
- then "omv-firstaid", set the eno1 IP address, reboot again
- still no OVM web gui
I am now dead in the water and guess I will re-install.
P.S. I've done about 8 of these OMV installs during the last week with NO ISSUES... on the same computers... so I don't understand why I'm suddenly getting the cpupower issues.
P.P.S. Ok, I was able to get the OMV WEB GUI back after rebooting again and doing omv-firstaid and "configure workbench port 81". So, I admit I'm BRAND NEW to OMV... but it looks amazing! I am using this script to install it from scratch on Debian 13:
curl -sSL https://github.com/OpenMediaVa…Script/raw/master/install | bash
Is that wrong? I read about it in https://wiki.omv-extras.org/do…lternate_scripted_install
(please advise, thx)
Is that wrong?
Nope. If you follow the guide exactly, I find it hard to believe things are broken unless your system doesn't support the performance setting (doubt that too).
go into System, Power, Settings, "performance", SAVE, apply changes, and reboot
- still no OVM web gui
Need more info after the reboot but before you run omv-firstaid.
ip a
systemctl status nginx
systemctl status php8.4-fpm
systemctl status openmediavault-engined
Ok, I started over (because I can without any pain on this project) and always use this script to install on Debian 13.3:
curl -sSL https://github.com/OpenMediaVa…Script/raw/master/install | bash
And though I didn't see your post quickly enough, I've still NOT run omv-firstaid.
And when I surfed to http://192.168.13.252 OMV web gui was right there, going strong.
But, when I tried to "apply" I got this error:
So I went to System, Power, Settings, changed the blank entry to "performance", SAVE, apply changes...
AND SUCCESS!!!
I've installed on this same computer about 6 or 7 times, and never got the "cpupower problem" until Friday (2 days ago).
But I think I've found the workaround (changing the blank entry to "performance").
I even wiped/reinstalled and tried to edit the /etc/cpupower-service.conf to contain GOVERNOR='performance' before I installed OMV, and though OMV re-wrote the file, and I saw "performance" still there, it wouldn't "apply" until I changed it in the gui.
As for your request... I did run these things:
ip a
systemctl status nginx
systemctl status php8.4-fpm
systemctl status openmediavault-engined
and still see some cpupower errors... which I hope you can explain.
QuoteDisplay More1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host noprefixroute
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eno1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 78:55:36:04:1b:06 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
altname enp2s0
altname enx785536041b06
inet 192.168.13.252/24 brd 192.168.13.255 scope global eno1
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fe80::7a55:36ff:fe04:1b06/64 scope link proto kernel_ll
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: wlp3s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 50:2e:91:59:fa:3c brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
altname wlx502e9159fa3c
inet 192.168.13.217/24 brd 192.168.13.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute wlp3s0
valid_lft 23822sec preferred_lft 16310sec
inet6 fe80::992f:2ace:9a46:9b3d/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
● nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Fri 2026-02-13 10:53:57 SST; 11h ago
Invocation: e768e59e893f44828f6c16941d9a7484
Docs: man:nginx(8)
Main PID: 1341 (nginx)
Tasks: 17 (limit: 33206)
Memory: 15.5M (peak: 16.3M)
CPU: 404ms
CGroup: /system.slice/nginx.service
├─1341 "nginx: master process /usr/sbin/nginx -g daemon on; master_process on;"
├─1342 "nginx: worker process"
├─1343 "nginx: worker process"
├─1344 "nginx: worker process"
├─1345 "nginx: worker process"
├─1346 "nginx: worker process"
├─1347 "nginx: worker process"
├─1349 "nginx: worker process"
├─1350 "nginx: worker process"
├─1351 "nginx: worker process"
├─1352 "nginx: worker process"
├─1353 "nginx: worker process"
├─1354 "nginx: worker process"
├─1355 "nginx: worker process"
├─1356 "nginx: worker process"
├─1357 "nginx: worker process"
└─1358 "nginx: worker process"
Feb 13 10:53:57 b2 systemd[1]: Starting nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server...
Feb 13 10:53:57 b2 systemd[1]: Started nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server.
● php8.4-fpm.service - The PHP 8.4 FastCGI Process Manager
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/php8.4-fpm.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Fri 2026-02-13 10:52:00 SST; 11h ago
Invocation: 2ab488abb4924e7bb4ddb1e6451cceeb
Docs: man:php-fpm8.4(8)
Main PID: 1204 (php-fpm8.4)
Status: "Processes active: 0, idle: 4, Requests: 166, slow: 0, Traffic: 0.20req/sec"
Tasks: 5 (limit: 33206)
Memory: 28.9M (peak: 30.7M)
CPU: 6.418s
CGroup: /system.slice/php8.4-fpm.service
├─1204 "php-fpm: master process (/etc/php/8.4/fpm/php-fpm.conf)"
├─1247 "php-fpm: pool www"
├─1248 "php-fpm: pool www"
├─6104 "php-fpm: pool openmediavault-webgui"
└─6379 "php-fpm: pool openmediavault-webgui"
Feb 13 10:52:00 b2 systemd[1]: Starting php8.4-fpm.service - The PHP 8.4 FastCGI Process Manager...
Feb 13 10:52:00 b2 systemd[1]: Started php8.4-fpm.service - The PHP 8.4 FastCGI Process Manager.
Feb 13 22:02:25 b2 openmediavault-webgui[6100]: Unauthorized login attempt from 192.168.13.106 [username=admin, user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:147.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/147.0]
Feb 13 22:02:39 b2 openmediavault-webgui[6104]: Authorized login from 192.168.13.106 [username=admin, user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:147.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/147.0]
● openmediavault-engined.service - The OpenMediaVault engine daemon that processes the RPC request
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/openmediavault-engined.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Fri 2026-02-13 10:52:00 SST; 11h ago
Invocation: d3696000dea347bba59fc42c646f12f4
Main PID: 1243 (omv-engined)
Tasks: 1 (limit: 33206)
Memory: 27M (peak: 81.5M)
CPU: 10.866s
CGroup: /system.slice/openmediavault-engined.service
└─1243 omv-engined
Feb 13 22:02:51 b2 omv-engined[6130]: See "systemctl status cpupower.service" and "journalctl -xeu cpupower.service" for details.
Feb 13 22:02:51 b2 omv-engined[6130]: [ERROR ] Command '/bin/systemd-run' failed with return code: 1
Feb 13 22:02:51 b2 omv-engined[6130]: [ERROR ] stderr: Running as unit: run-p6222-i6522.scope; invocation ID: 88cd47205991486ba5ff4acefed30cec
Feb 13 22:02:51 b2 omv-engined[6130]: Job for cpupower.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
Feb 13 22:02:51 b2 omv-engined[6130]: See "systemctl status cpupower.service" and "journalctl -xeu cpupower.service" for details.
Feb 13 22:02:51 b2 omv-engined[6130]: [ERROR ] retcode: 1
Feb 13 22:02:51 b2 omv-engined[6130]: [ERROR ] Running as unit: run-p6222-i6522.scope; invocation ID: 88cd47205991486ba5ff4acefed30cec
Feb 13 22:02:51 b2 omv-engined[6130]: Job for cpupower.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
Feb 13 22:02:51 b2 omv-engined[6130]: See "systemctl status cpupower.service" and "journalctl -xeu cpupower.service" for details. (file=/usr/share/php/openmediavault/system/process.inc, line=247)
Feb 13 22:04:51 b2 crontab[6599]: (root) REPLACE (root)
If you would like me to wipe/install Debian/install OMV and run these commands again before I do anything else... let me know.
I usually re-install until I get a clean install for any server anyway.
(maybe I need to reach out to the https://github.com/OpenMediaVault-Plugin-Developers/ because I always use their script to install... and maybe they changed the power conf settings)
But, when I tried to "apply" I got this error:
I would need to see the whole error that you can copy&paste from the bell in the top right of the omv web interface.
I've installed on this same computer about 6 or 7 times, and never got the "cpupower problem" until Friday (2 days ago).
There have been a lot of recent cpupower changes. It is possible the install script is not setting the default properly. The install script leaves a log in /root/omv_install.lo if you want me to look at it.
If you would like me to wipe/install Debian/install OMV and run these commands again before I do anything else... let me know.
No need. If you could post the output of sudo systemctl status cpupower.service
(maybe I need to reach out to the https://github.com/OpenMediaVault-Plugin-Developers/ because I always use their script to install... and maybe they changed the power conf settings)
I wrote that script. you are already reaching out. I have tested the new cpupower many times but some systems only support certain settings. most of my testing is in VMs as well which doesn't support cpupower at all.
A blank form field for the CPU fre scaling form field makes me wonder. Maybe an invalid setting in the database? A real „blank“ database value should be displayed as „ Disabled“ in the dropdown.
Maybe an invalid setting in the database?
Maybe the install script is inserting an invalid state since it retrieves the states from the kernel config instead of the system. I will have to look at that.
Here's the omv-install.log (zipped, was too big to "quote"... : )
And here's the output from "systemctl status cpupower.service":
root@b2:~# systemctl status cpupower.service
● cpupower.service - Apply cpupower configuration
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/cpupower.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/cpupower.service.d
└─openmediavault.conf
Active: active (exited) since Sat 2026-02-14 22:14:25 +10; 2h 8min ago
Invocation: 242a4c9b03f5416986ff053a595eccac
Main PID: 950 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Mem peak: 2M
CPU: 16ms
Feb 14 22:14:25 b2 systemd[1]: Starting cpupower.service - Apply cpupower configuration...
Feb 14 22:14:25 b2 systemd[1]: Finished cpupower.service - Apply cpupower configuration.
Sorry I don't have any other errors to show... I selected "performance" from the dropdown and have moved forward... I've been able to add users, configure LUKS on /dev/sd[abcd] and format them with XFS, and add /dev/dm-[012] to mergerfs...
You have definitely won me over on "mergerfs"... I had no idea it existed until I found it in your posts... I will skip RAID 5 now, for sure... it's SO FAST to encrypt/format... it took 62 hours to RAID 5 format these 4 drives last month... but with LUKS and XFS and mergerfs... less than an hour... wow!
(I also want to do SnapRAID on /dev/dm-3... just need to read a bit more)
Now I just need to add keyfiles to each of the LUKS key-slots and then add (something) to the /etc/crypttab... that's where I got stuck before.
The install script is setting the cpu freq scaling to ondemand which is your kernel's default and omv does think it is a valid choice.
What is the output of: journalctl -u cpupower | cat
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