Re: System Monitor cannot read sensors anymore

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On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 04:06:02PM +0100, Richard Llom wrote:
> Hi Jean,
> thanks for your prompt answer!
> 
> Jean Delvare wrote:
> > On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 12:26:30 +0100, Richard Llom wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> after a recent kernel update to 3.17.4 in my distro I can't read my
> >> sensors anymore with my beloved ksysguard (/System Monitor). Strange
> >> thing is, I can still see the sensors with "sensors" (see below).
> >> 
> >> So I was wondering if something changed with this kernel or if there are
> >> known issues?
> > 
> > We are in the process of converting many drivers to have their
> > attributes attached to the hwmon class device instead of the physical
> > device. Any application not relying on libsensors may get confused by
> > this change. We had reports of this happening already. That being said,
> > the drivers you are using have not been converted in 3.17. k10temp was
> > converted in 3.18, while it87 was not converted yet. So I'm a bit
> > confused. Plus I think ksysguard is using libsensors anyway. Which
> > verions of ksysguard and libsensors are you using?
> > 
> System Monitor Version 4.11.14
> Using KDE Development Platform 4.14.3
> 
> pacman -Qo /usr/lib/libsensors.so.4.3.2
> /usr/lib/libsensors.so.4.3.2 is owned by lm_sensors 3.3.5-1
> 
> >> What daemon/service (?) is responsible for providing the sensor data to
> >> programs? How can I check if it is running correctly?
> > 
> > No service is doing that. The information is available in sysfs, and
> > libsensors gets it from there and makes it available to applications in
> > an easy way.
> > 
> Where exactly in /sys ? Because here I can't find anything there related to 
> my sensors...
> 
> > I'm not too sure how to debug this further. Can you describe the
> > symptoms better?
> > 
> Well, ksysguard comes with a "Sensor Browser", you can find it in a new tab 
> (File -> New Tab). In this sensor browser I had the very same sensors 
> provided by "sensors" e.g.
> nouveau-pci-0100
> ∟ temp1
> k10temp-pci-00c3
> ∟ temp1
> it8720-isa-0228
> ∟ fan1
> ∟ fan2
> ∟ fan3
> ∟ in0
> ∟ ...
> But not so after the update anymore...
> There are still other sensors (CPU Load, Disk, Network, etc...) which still 
> work.
> 
> > Can you run ksysguard from a terminal and see if it's
> > spitting any error message (or logging them somewhere maybe?)
> > 
> This is the output from the terminal
> ksysguard(3168) KSGRD::SensorAgent::processAnswer: Received UNKNOWN COMMAND 
> for:  "lmsensors/k10temp-pci-00c3/temp1?"
> ksysguard(3168) KSGRD::SensorAgent::processAnswer: Received UNKNOWN COMMAND 
> for:  "lmsensors/it8720-isa-0228/temp1?"
> ksysguard(3168) KSGRD::SensorAgent::processAnswer: Received UNKNOWN COMMAND 
> for:  "lmsensors/nouveau-pci-0100/temp1?"
> ksysguard(3168) KSGRD::SensorAgent::processAnswer: Received UNKNOWN COMMAND 
> for:  "lmsensors/it8720-isa-0228/fan1?"
> ksysguard(3168) KSGRD::SensorAgent::processAnswer: Received UNKNOWN COMMAND 
> for:  "lmsensors/it8720-isa-0228/fan2?"
> ...
> 
FWIW, I tried ksysguard with a 3.18 kernel and did not see any problems.
I currently have acpitz-virtual, coretemp, nct6792, max6695, tmp435, and
tmp451 connected to the system. I tried with Ubuntu 14.04 and 14.10. 

Guenter

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