Comment # 7 on bug 1205308 from Michael Hirmke

(In reply to Dirk Mueller from comment #6)
> (In reply to Michael Hirmke from comment #5)
> 
> > Adding AF_NETLINK to the service file of irqbalance solved this problem.
> 
> which problem is "this problem"? are you're referring to the log messages
> about "thermald might not be running". or are you referring to "irqbalance:
> Deactivated successfully"?

Problem isn't solved, I was wrong.
I referred to the message regaring thermald *and* the "socket bind failed"
message. Now I only get these messages:

systemd[1]: Started irqbalance daemon.
/usr/sbin/irqbalance[16600]: thermal: received group id (3).
systemd[1]: irqbalance.service: Deactivated successfully.

So now it isn't running without an error message.
It didn't get this in the first place. So the problem isn't solved.

> 
> it should only solve the "thermald might not be running" messages which are
> annoying but harmless. 

Indeed.

> 
> > On the other hand, you were right: thermald is not installed on this system.
> > But if it is needed, why it wasn't installed as as dependency.
> 
> it is entirely optional, irqbalance functionality should work just fine
> without it installed. just that with it installed and *running*, irqbalance
> can do superior rebalancing decisions. 
> 
> Also, thermald is only needed on intel cpus and must not be installed on AMD
> cpus.

Ok, this machine has an Intel cpu.
What would be the advantage installing thermad additionally?