[SOLVED] Gamemoded ERROR: Failed to acquire service name: File exists

[Pimple]

Running gamemoded has begun to result in an error for me. Since noticing this there are games in Steam I can only run without game mode. I find barely any search results on the error, and nothing that has helped me understand or fix it. Purging all things game mode and reinstalling, including config files, has made no difference.

I'm running Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon 64-bit. If anybody has some advice I would appreciate it! Here's the error message:

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user on ~ # gamemoded
v1.6.1
Loading config file [/usr/share/gamemode/gamemode.ini]
ERROR: Failed to acquire service name: File exists

I don't know if these two things are related but when I run vulkaninfo and when running some games in Steam I get this message in the log:

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WARNING: [Loader Message] Code 0 : terminator_CreateInstance: Failed to CreateInstance in ICD 1.  Skipping ICD.

In case it's helpful:

• System info
• Vulkan info
• lshw -c video
• gamemoded -t

[MiZoG]

AFAIK gamemoderun service must run as a user service.
When I run gamemoded -t with root privileges I receive a couple of failure messages though not the same with yours.

Your vulkan error message looks related to this bug. Not 100% sure.

Anyway, gamemoderun modifies CPU's behaviour and Vulkan errors have to do with the level of Vulkan support offered by you graphics hardware and/or drivers.
I believe they're not related.

[1000]

Maybe this app has a bug/missing something.
Because after command

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gamemoded -t

and when is finished
I noticed process in system

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$ pstree -p | grep  game
           |               |-gamemoded(2594070)---{gamemoded}(2594071)

and error with next command

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$ gamemoded 
v1.6.1
Loading config file [/usr/share/gamemode/gamemode.ini]
ERROR: Failed to acquire service name: File exists

You can kill process, for example

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killall gamemoded

But someone has to ask/report the bug if it hasn't been fixed.

I can try search support like this

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$ type -P gamemoded
/usr/bin/gamemoded

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$ apt-file search /usr/bin/gamemoded
gamemode-daemon: /usr/bin/gamemoded

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$ apt-cache show gamemode-daemon | grep 'Source\|Maintainer\|Bugs\|Homepage'
Source: gamemode
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Debian Games Team <pkg-games-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Homepage: https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode

[Pimple]

Clearly I've managed to mix the gamemoded and gamemoderun commands up in my head. I'll go ahead and not tell you how long I spent looking into things before even posting this thread

One wonders what the error message is about but presumably you're not supposed to call the daemon like that anyway, in which case it's not necessarily a bug?

As long as it works which, now that I'm spelling it right, it does, I'm happy. So thanks for the replies!

Your vulkan error message looks related to this bug. Not 100% sure.

Yeah probably. If that turns out to be an issue I guess I should post another thread, but I haven't looked into that very much at this point.

[1000]

It all depends on the developer's idea.
However ...
From command " man gamemoded "

-t, --test
Run diagnostic tests on the current installation

and do you also have this problem with other things, that if you just want to test something, you can't run it again because something stays in the background?
I guess not.
I know, the test works again. But I don't think that's how we manage daemons.
So, as a courtesy, it could end only this new process when the command ends.
So check if the problem has been fixed and if not, report it to the developers.