"The energy-usage package only works on Linux kernels" while running on Linux

[matbeseris]

So I had the error: "The energy-usage package only works on Linux kernels" while trying to run this on my Mac, which made sense. But I just made a Linux VM and tried to utilize the library and I'm getting the same error again, when I'm definitely running on Linux. Does anyone know how I can either fix this problem or bypass the error/make it think I'm using a Linux kernel (even though I am?)

[thibaudcolas]

I had a similar issue – looking at the code, the actual error message is:

The energy-usage package only works on Linux kernels with Intel processors that support the RAPL interface and/or machines with an Nvidia GPU. Please try again on a different machine.

energy-usage/energyusage/evaluate.py

Lines 398 to 401 in eb26f34

	else:
	utils.log("The energy-usage package only works on Linux kernels "
	"with Intel processors that support the RAPL interface and/or machines with"
	" an Nvidia GPU. Please try again on a different machine.")

…which might explain your situation. For me this was when attempting to run this in GitHub Actions (Ubuntu, I don’t know much else about the virtual hardware). This error message is masked due to #16.