Package: conky-std
Version: 1.9.0-2
Severity: wishlist
Hello,
thanks for maintaining conky in Debian!
I have a problem with the hwmon object.
One line in my ~/.conkyrc reads:
${color green}CPU Temp.:$color ${hwmon 0 temp 1 1 273} K${color green} - MB
Temp.:$color ${hwmon 0 temp 2 1 273} K${color green} - CPU Fan:$color ${hwmon 0
fan 1 0.10472 0} rad/s
Please note that, if you need to review the rest of my ~/.conkyrc,
it's documented on my website:
http://www.inventati.org/frx/
Here, to be more precise:
http://www.inventati.org/frx/doc/nanodocs/testing_workstation_desktopconf.html#system-monitor
Well, unfortunately there are two hwmon devices on my system:
$ tree /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon?/
/sys/class/hwmon/hwmon0/
├── device -> ../../../coretemp.0
├── power
│ ├── async
│ ├── autosuspend_delay_ms
│ ├── control
│ ├── runtime_active_kids
│ ├── runtime_active_time
│ ├── runtime_enabled
│ ├── runtime_status
│ ├── runtime_suspended_time
│ └── runtime_usage
├── subsystem -> ../../../../../class/hwmon
└── uevent
/sys/class/hwmon/hwmon1/
├── device -> ../../../ATK0110:00
├── fan1_input
├── fan1_label
├── fan1_max
├── fan1_min
├── fan2_input
├── fan2_label
├── fan2_max
├── fan2_min
├── fan3_input
├── fan3_label
├── fan3_max
├── fan3_min
├── in0_input
├── in0_label
├── in0_max
├── in0_min
├── in1_input
├── in1_label
├── in1_max
├── in1_min
├── in2_input
├── in2_label
├── in2_max
├── in2_min
├── in3_input
├── in3_label
├── in3_max
├── in3_min
├── name
├── power
│ ├── async
│ ├── autosuspend_delay_ms
│ ├── control
│ ├── runtime_active_kids
│ ├── runtime_active_time
│ ├── runtime_enabled
│ ├── runtime_status
│ ├── runtime_suspended_time
│ └── runtime_usage
├── subsystem -> ../../../../../../../../class/hwmon
├── temp1_crit
├── temp1_input
├── temp1_label
├── temp1_max
├── temp2_crit
├── temp2_input
├── temp2_label
├── temp2_max
└── uevent
6 directories, 57 files
The problem is that, on each reboot, they may be assigned to hwmon0 and
hwmon1 or the other way around, unpredictably.
So, in some cases my conky configuration works fine with ${hwmon 0 ...},
while in the other cases it should instead have ${hwmon 1 ...}!
When the configuration is wrong, conky spits errors at startup, such as:
Conky: can't open '/sys/class/hwmon/hwmon0/temp1_input': No such file or
directory
please check your device or remove this var from Conky
I searched the web and found that I am not the only one who has this
same problem with conky.
Unfortunately, I have found no real solution.
Among the suggestions that can be found in the wild, I've seen people
who modify their ~/.conkyrc on the fly with sed (frankly speaking, an
ugly hack), people who blacklisted some kernel modules in order to
have only one hwmon device (I don't consider this to be an acceptable
solution), and so forth...
I think the real solution should be found (or implemented) within
the conky configuration syntax, but I failed to find a suitable
strategy based upon the existing settings and objects.
I suggest that the solution is implemented *in* conky.
My idea is that conky should read the available /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon?/
directories at startup and look at their /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon?/device
symlinks.
These symlinks point to ../../../NAME : the mapping between hwmon
device numbers and those names should be stored in memory by conky.
After that, conky should allow the syntax ${hwmon NAME ...}
and automatically find the corresponding hwmon device number,
by using the previously built mapping.
This way, I could write ${hwmon ATK0110:00 ...} in my ~/.conkyrc
and forget about the device number.
I hope this can be implemented: please forward this bug report
upstream.
Thanks for your time!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages conky-std depends on:
ii libaudclient2 3.2.3-1
ii libc6 2.13-33
ii libcairo2 1.12.2-2
ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.26.0-1
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.100-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.32.3-1
ii libimlib2 1.4.5-1
ii libiw30 30~pre9-8
ii liblua5.1-0 5.1.5-2
ii libncurses5 5.9-10
ii libtinfo5 5.9-10
ii libx11-6 2:1.5.0-1
ii libxdamage1 1:1.1.3-2
ii libxext6 2:1.3.1-2
ii libxfixes3 1:5.0-4
ii libxft2 2.3.1-1
ii libxml2 2.8.0+dfsg1-5
ii libxmmsclient6 0.8+dfsg-4
conky-std recommends no packages.
Versions of packages conky-std suggests:
pn apcupsd <none>
ii audacious 3.2.3-1
pn moc <none>
pn mpd <none>
pn xmms2 <none>
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