- Package:
- gamemode-daemon
- Source:
- gamemode-daemon
- Description:
- Optimise Linux system performance on demand (daemon)
- Submitter:
- Jake Piotrowski
- Date:
- 2026-07-05 10:07:01 UTC
- Severity:
- normal
Dear Maintainer, gamemoded -t fails with a message of "ERROR: Governor was not set to performance (was actually powersave)!". This is after installing using the meta package of "gamemode". From journalctl it appears the package is missing some polkit rules: Mar 18 07:11:18 jakepiot gamemoded[3930]: ERROR: External process failed with exit code 127 Mar 18 07:11:18 jakepiot gamemoded[3930]: ERROR: Output was: Mar 18 07:11:18 jakepiot gamemoded[3930]: ERROR: External process failed with exit code 127 Mar 18 07:11:18 jakepiot gamemoded[3930]: ERROR: Output was: Mar 18 07:11:18 jakepiot gamemoded[3930]: ERROR: Failed to update split_lock_mitigate Mar 18 07:11:18 jakepiot pkexec[4063]: jake: Error executing command as another user: Not authorized [USER=root] [TTY=unknown] [CWD=/home/jake] [COMMAND=/usr/libexec/cpugovctl set performance] Mar 18 07:11:18 jakepiot gamemoded[4063]: Error executing command as another user: Not authorized Mar 18 07:11:18 jakepiot gamemoded[4063]: This incident has been reported.
Hello, This is permission issue. You must be in group `gamemode`. This group is used in `/usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/gamemode.rules` provided by `gamemode-daemon` package. The bug is that the package installer does not create this group. After manual create `gamemode` group and add yourself to this group tests are passed. Regards, Robert Paciorek
Greetings,
I installed `gamemode` and ran `gamemode -t`. Everything verified except the CPU governor setting.
ineffective)?
I manually added the group `gamemode` to my system, then I added myself (the user) to that group.
```
sudo groupadd gamemode
sudo usermod -aG gamemode $USER
```
This solved the problem.