> Maybe there should be something added to the error message that this > can also be caused by wrong settings in sensors.conf Well, that kind of error isn't supposed to be present (even in a commented out state) in the default configuration file. And users are not supposed to add random commands in there either. > > Thanks for the report. > > Thanks for helping me, even the problem was that simple and caused by > me:) Let us share the guiltiness, since the default configuration file was error-prone. For one thing, it confirmed that I should always ask for a strace first. Looks like it solves half of the problems with sensors and sensors -s. I'll be closing your ticket. -- Jean Delvare http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/