On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Jean Delvare <khali at linux-fr.org> wrote: > Hi John, Hi Jean! thanks for responding! > > Preliminary note: using something as old as lm-sensors 2.10.1 with > a kernel as recent as 2.6.26.5 doesn't make much sense IMHO. We do > our best to preserve compatibility but it's hard to always get it > right. > Fair enough. I expected this. >> yet I still get this "warning" If it's only a warning why don't I get >> the actual readings from my hardware? > > The warning documented above is unrelated to your problem, this is > why. > >> I looked into upgrading to >> lm-sensors 3 and libsenseors4 packages from Debian testing tree but >> the dependencies were pretty bad, I might as well upgrade the whole >> system to testing. > > Shouldn't be. For one thing you should be able to install libsensors3 > and libsensors4 in parallel. Once this is done you should be able to > upgrade lm-sensors (and only lm-sensors) from version 2.x to version > 3.x. I am no Debian expert though, maybe I'm missing something. lm-sensors 3 and libsensors 4 want a newer version of libc6 than I have installed, and upgrading that seems like a bad idea (it would probably force upgrading all the packages on the system since they all depend on libc6, thus I might as well move the whole system from debian stable to debian testing) In the end this may be the only solution :-( ============================= [root at tb303 ~]# dpkg -i libsensors4_3.0.2-1+b2_amd64.deb (Reading database ... 30914 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libsensors4 1:3.0.2-1+b2 (using libsensors4_3.0.2-1+b2_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libsensors4 ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libsensors4: libsensors4 depends on libc6 (>= 2.7-1); however: Version of libc6 on system is 2.3.6.ds1-13etch7. dpkg: error processing libsensors4 (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: libsensors4 [root at tb303 ~]# dpkg -i lm-sensors_3.0.2-1+b2_amd64.deb (Reading database ... 30914 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace lm-sensors 1:2.10.1-3 (using lm-sensors_3.0.2-1+b2_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement lm-sensors ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of lm-sensors: lm-sensors depends on libc6 (>= 2.7-1); however: Version of libc6 on system is 2.3.6.ds1-13etch7. lm-sensors depends on libsensors4 (>= 1:3.0.0-1); however: Package libsensors4 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing lm-sensors (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: lm-sensors [root at tb303 ~]# dpkg -i libc6_2.7-16_amd64.deb dpkg: regarding libc6_2.7-16_amd64.deb containing libc6: libc6 conflicts with tzdata-etch tzdata provides tzdata-etch and is installed. dpkg: error processing libc6_2.7-16_amd64.deb (--install): conflicting packages - not installing libc6 Errors were encountered while processing: libc6_2.7-16_amd64.deb [root at tb303 ~]# dpkg -p libc6 Package: libc6 Priority: required Section: libs Installed-Size: 11468 Maintainer: GNU Libc Maintainers <debian-glibc at lists.debian.org> Architecture: amd64 Source: glibc Version: 2.7-16 Provides: glibc-2.7-1 Depends: libgcc1 Suggests: locales, glibc-doc Conflicts: libterm-readline-gnu-perl (<< 1.15-2), tzdata (<< 2007k-1), tzdata-etch Filename: pool/main/g/glibc/libc6_2.3.6.ds1-13etch5_amd64.deb Size: 4936850 MD5sum: d25329a43a9631173dac87a4ed161ee5 Description: GNU C Library: Shared libraries Contains the standard libraries that are used by nearly all programs on the system. This package includes shared versions of the standard C library and the standard math library, as well as many others. ============================ > >> I have run sensors-detect and have the proper modules loaded. > > Which modules are these? i2c_nforce2 w83627hf k8temp is compiled directly into the kernel (non modular). > > Please provide the full output of sensors-detect. http://pastebin.ca/1293524 > > Did this system ever work with a different combination of lm-sensors > version and kernel version? And what system is this? Yes it worked with an older kernel and same version of lm-sensors (not certain on the version of lm-sensors because I've updated since then of course, this was a year ago that it worked). The kernel it used to work on (I can test this again) was 2.6.20.1. The system is MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum nforce4 based motherboard. http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=K8N_Neo4_Platinum&class=mb John Brier
