Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS - failing install #13
Description
After a pristine setup of
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS
Release: 24.04
Codename: noble
$ sudo ./install.sh
Check the model
Model name: Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU N3710 @ 1.60GHz
BIOS Model name: Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU N3710 @ 1.60GHz Fill By OEM CPU @ 1.6GHz
Check that the 8250_lpss driver is loaded
Kernel driver in use: 8250_lpss
Kernel modules: 8250_lpss
Kernel driver in use: 8250_lpss
Kernel modules: 8250_lpss
Get the serial port
Found PMC module at serial port /dev/ttyS5
Install wdhw tools dependencies
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package hddtemp is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package 'hddtemp' has no installation candidate
Create wdhwd user
id: ‘wdhwd’: no such user
chown: warning: '.' should be ':': ‘root.root’
Create wdhwd configuration file
chown: warning: '.' should be ':': ‘root.root’
Install wdhwd
chown: warning: '.' should be ':': ‘root.root’
chown: warning: '.' should be ':': ‘root.wdhwd’
Create client binary
Register wdhwd in systemd
chown: warning: '.' should be ':': ‘root.root’
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/wdhwd.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/wdhwd.service.
user@nas:~/wdnas-hwtools$ systemctl status wdhwd.service
× wdhwd.service - WD Hardware Controller Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/wdhwd.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2025-05-24 07:55:42 UTC; 14s ago
Duration: 463ms
Process: 1513 ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 -m wdhwdaemon.daemon -q (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 1513 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
CPU: 460ms
May 24 07:55:42 wdnas systemd[1]: wdhwd.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
May 24 07:55:42 wdnas systemd[1]: wdhwd.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
May 24 07:55:42 wdnas systemd[1]: wdhwd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
May 24 07:55:42 wdnas systemd[1]: Failed to start wdhwd.service - WD Hardware Controller Daemon.
user@wd:~/wdnas-hwtools$ sudo apt install hddtemp
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package hddtemp is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package 'hddtemp' has no installation candidate
Initially tested with Ubuntu 18, as of 2 years ago is out of LTS standard security maintenance for Ubuntu Main.
This hardware still represents good alternative and use case.
Additional Info Mint forum
hddtemp was removed from the Debian for this reason: https://sources.debian.org/src/hddtemp/ ... bian/NEWS/. Because it is no longer in Debian, it's no longer in Ubuntu 22.04.