Disable power monitoring on all desktop platforms

telemetry/telemetry/internal/platform/linux_platform_backend.py

 # Copyright 2013 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 # Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 # found in the LICENSE file.
 
 import logging
 import os
 import platform
 import subprocess
 import sys
 
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       self._InstallIpfw()
     elif application == 'avconv':
       self._InstallBinary(application)
     elif application in _POSSIBLE_PERFHOST_APPLICATIONS:
       self._InstallBinary(application)
     else:
       raise NotImplementedError(
           'Please teach Telemetry how to install ' + application)
 
   def CanMonitorPower(self):
-    return self._power_monitor.CanMonitorPower()
+    # TODO(charliea): This is a stopgap until all desktop power monitoring code
+    # can be removed. (crbug.com/763263)
+    return False
 
   def CanMeasurePerApplicationPower(self):
     return self._power_monitor.CanMeasurePerApplicationPower()
 
   def StartMonitoringPower(self, browser):
     self._power_monitor.StartMonitoringPower(browser)
 
   def StopMonitoringPower(self):
     return self._power_monitor.StopMonitoringPower()
 
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     assert self.CanLaunchApplication('ipfw'), 'Failed to install ipfw. ' \
         'ipfw provided binaries are not supported for linux kernel < 3.13. ' \
         'You may proceed by manually building and installing dummynet for ' \
         'your kernel. See: http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/dummynet/'
 
   def _InstallBinary(self, bin_name):
     bin_path = binary_manager.FetchPath(
         bin_name, self.GetArchName(), self.GetOSName())
     os.environ['PATH'] += os.pathsep + os.path.dirname(bin_path)
     assert self.CanLaunchApplication(bin_name), 'Failed to install ' + bin_name