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koreanfan

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Registered: 2020-04-10

Posts: 4

xfce4-sensors-plugin issues on debian buster and bullseye

Hello. S/W: OS Debian bullseye 5.4.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.4.19-1 (2020-02-13) x86_64 GNU/Linux
xfce4-sensors-plugin 1.3.0-2+b1
H/W: amd fx-8300, rx560, WD 2TB.
Hello,i have issue with xfce4-sensors-plugin.I set show cpu temperature on my panel.But after rebooting my system, xfce4-sensors-plugin show me CPU Temperature Caption with +5 voltage value (CPU Temperature: +5.130V). And in main menu of xfce4-sensors-plugin i have two caption named "CPU Temperature" but with different values. One of them show temperature another show voltage.Also, xfce4-sensors-plugin didnt show hdd temp. Plugin ask use sudo chmod u+s /usr/sbin/hddtemp.
I have this issues on debian buster and debian bullseye. 1 year ago i have this issues but they didnt fixed yet.

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k-3.14

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From: Rhineland

Registered: 2017-02-18

Posts: 153

Re: xfce4-sensors-plugin issues on debian buster and bullseye

I don't see a bug report on that package.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgrepo … e4-sensors

Maybe you should start there and write a DEBIAN bug report.

br KH

koreanfan

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Registered: 2020-04-10

Posts: 4

Re: xfce4-sensors-plugin issues on debian buster and bullseye

I send email to maintainer and uploader few weeks ago but no answer

k-3.14

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From: Rhineland

Registered: 2017-02-18

Posts: 153

Re: xfce4-sensors-plugin issues on debian buster and bullseye

Fill in a bug report. I think, that is the way to do it.

https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting.en.html

br KH

koreanfan

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Registered: 2020-04-10

Posts: 4

Re: xfce4-sensors-plugin issues on debian buster and bullseye

no needed use this link for bug report. I always send emails to maintainer and uploaders and they answer me and help to fix many problems in a short time. Seems no one care about  xfce-sensor-plugin cuz this third party package

CwF

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Registered: 2018-01-28

Posts: 290

Re: xfce4-sensors-plugin issues on debian buster and bullseye

You can likely find similar prior bug reports to add your info! This issue has come up before.

I believe the issue is with the definitions of various chipsets and inconsistent enumeration. Hard to explain, but when I've found the problem it is a particular sensor chip that does what you describe, but only on a particular board. Some more complicated setups seem to enumerate in a random way, using an address for a sensor as enumerated on that boot - which is not consistent. From a year or more back, nct6775 chipset is an issue, i5500 sensors and w83795xxx chipsets have blacklist entries in certain distro's due to some laptop resume issues, and a few others I've noted and not going to look up... I left the subject.

Anyway, the above complications are not related to xfce4-sensors-plugin specifically, but does affect the values xfce4-sensors-plugin reads. Investigate /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon#/*. Look to see if that is consistent across boots, it is there xfce4-sensors-plugin obtains values I believe.

Prior I have looked at this with an image that runs on all my hardware choices. Only the mention chipsets would do strange things like you mention, one exactly = swapping a temp for a voltage. I have also found odd hardware, typically SR-IOV hardware that changes and sometimes blocks IC2 bus sensors.

At first I just used genmon and a script for reporting on the problem setups. Now, that's my preferred solution and I no longer install xfce4-sensors-plugin. I think I found psensor also had the issue on the problem setups, while using half xfce4-sensors-plugin's memory use, genmon halves that again.

koreanfan

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Registered: 2020-04-10

Posts: 4

Re: xfce4-sensors-plugin issues on debian buster and bullseye

On arch and manjaro i dont have those issues. All works properly. But 2,5 years ago i have those issues on majaro and arch, but after month later they fix this. So for maintainers for debian xfce4-sensor-plugin is third party package.