NOTE: none of these changes have any impact on normal inxi -y -1, -y, or -y xx
operation, everything will remain exactly the same, this only changes and
makes robust -y 1 single key: value pair per line output.
3.1.03 finishes the -y1 introduced in 3.1.02, but makes it a core part of the inxi
logic for line printing, not a tacked on afterthought.
Because the first draft of this in 3.1.02 was really a hack tacked onto the existing
logic, which was not very flexible or robust, and required way too much literal test
logic in the black box print_data() subroutine, which is supposed to be a 'dumb'
logic, that just does what you give it automatically, I added in key changes that
hard code the indentations per key, like so:
Now: 34#0#3#key-name
Before: 34#key-name
Note that anyone using the json or XML output option may need to redo their code
a bit to handle these extra 2 values that preface the actual key names.
Fixes:
1. In order to make this work, changed a few small things internally, a few
key names were slightly altered to make them more clear.
Changes:
1. Redo of all internal full key strings, added two new # separated items:
xx#x#y#key-name:
* xx remains the main 0 padded 2 digit sorter per row/block.
* x is a new 0/1 boolean, that shows if the value is a container or not. As
currently implemented probably not hugely useful since it won't say when
the following items it is a container of ends.
Note that the following y value will always be 1 for the item contained by
the container, so you can check that way if you want. the next item can
also be a container, but it would have either the same indentation level
as the previous container or be different.
Thus, if a key is a container, it can contain either non containers, or
other containers, but that primary container does not end until the indent
value equals or is less than the indent value of the first container.
If you are a programmer you should be able to figure this out.
* y is the indentation level, 0-xx is supported, but in practical terms, only
4 levels are used. For single line output, these set the indentation for that
key.
* key-name remains the key string ID name.
2. For -y 1 -G will show drivers then indented one more level unloaded, FAILED,
and alternate: to make it clear those are a subset of drivers. driver: itself
will contain the actual driver. In cases where no driver is loaded, a note
will show indented after driver:
3. For -y 1, driver v: versions will be indented 1, and driver will be a container
that contains that version key: value pair.
Samples:
-----------------------------------
inxi -Razy1
RAID:
Device-1: g23-home
type: zfs
status: ONLINE
size: 2.69 TiB
free: 1.26 TiB
allocated: 1.43 TiB
Array-1: mirror
status: ONLINE
size: 1.82 TiB
free: 602.00 GiB
Components:
online: sdb sdc
Array-2: mirror
status: ONLINE
size: 888.00 GiB
free: 688.00 GiB
Components:
online: sdd sde
-----------------------------------
sudo inxi -dazy1
Drives:
Local Storage:
total: 1.98 TiB
used: 1.43 TiB (72.2%)
ID-1: /dev/sda
vendor: Intel
model: SSDSC2BW180A4
family: 53x and Pro 1500/2500 Series SSDs
size: 167.68 GiB
block size:
physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B
sata: 3.0
speed: 6.0 Gb/s
serial: <filter>
rev: DC32
temp: 37 C
scheme: MBR
SMART: yes
state: enabled
health: PASSED
on: 291d 17h
cycles: 1346
read: 431.94 GiB
written: 666.16 GiB
Optical-1: /dev/sr0
vendor: HL-DT-ST
model: DVDRAM GH20LS10
rev: FL00
dev-links: cdrom,cdrw,dvd,dvdrw
Features:
speed: 48
multisession: yes
audio: yes
dvd: yes
rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram
state: running
-----------------------------------
inxi -Aazy1
Audio:
Device-1: NVIDIA High Definition Audio
vendor: Gigabyte
driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel
bus ID: 09:00.1
chip ID: 10de:0be3
Device-2: AMD Family 17h HD Audio
vendor: Gigabyte
driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel
bus ID: 0b:00.3
chip ID: 1022:1457
Device-3: N/A
type: USB
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
bus ID: 5-1.3.4:5
chip ID: 21b4:0083
serial: <filter>
Sound Server: ALSA
v: k5.4.0-11.2-liquorix-amd64
The new -y 1 feature exposed several small and larger glitches with how sets
of data were constructed in inxi output. See Changes: for list of changes made
to improve or fix these glitches.
These errors and minor output inconsistencies became very obvious when I was
doing heavy testing of -y 1, so I decided to just fix all of them at the same
time, plus it was very hard to make the -y 1 indenter work as expected when the
key values were not being treated consistently.
Note that this completes the set of all possible -y results:
Full -y Options:
1. -y [no integer given] :: set width to a default of 80. this is what you usually
want for forum posts, or for online issue reports, because it won't wrap and be
hard to read. Help us help your users and others!! Teach them to use for example
-Fxzy or -bay for their bug reports. Just add y to whatever collection of arguments
you generally ask for in support forums or issue reports. Highly recommended,
easy to type, and joins cleanly with other letters.
2. -y -1 :: removes line width limits, this can lead to very long lines in some
cases, and removes all auto-wrapping of line widths.
3. -y 1 :: Switch to stacked key: value pairs, with primary data blocks separated
by a blank line. Think dmidecode type output, or other command line sys info tools.
By request, a forum support guy noted it was hard for newbies to understand the
-G values, particularly -Ga when in lines, so this is another way to request
data. WARNING: for lots of data, this gets really long!!! But if you are curious
how inxi actually constructs its data internally, this sort of shows it.
4. -y 80-xx :: set width to 80 or greater. Note you can also set these in
your configurations if you want using the various options supported.
-----------------------------------
Bugs:
1. Once again, no real bugs found beyond a few trivial things I can't remember.
Fixes:
1. When out of X, dm: showed after Console: and often said dm: N/A particularly
on headless servers, which was silly. Now DM: only shows after Console: if
a DM: was actually found. If regular Desktop output, either in X, or via
--display out of X, no changes.
2. There was a pointless sudo test when sudo values are set initially, they
were still running even if --no-sudo was used. Now they don't run in that case.
Enhancements:
1. The biggie, now inxi can output in a similar indented way as something like
dmidecode if you use the -y 1 option. This feature was originally by request,
though the initial request actually just wanted to see it stacked simply,
but that was almost impossible to read for any output reasonably long, so
I made the indentations very dynamic and deep, they go up to 4 levels in,
which is roughly how deep in the inxi sub Categories go. This output format
makes it very easy to see how inxi 'thinks' about its data, how it views
sets, subsets, subsubsets, and subsubsubsets of data.
Note that each data block, as with dmidecode data, is separated by a blank
line. You know what this means!!! Yes, that's right!!! You can parse inxi
output with awk!!, same way legacy bash+gawk inxi used to parse its data!!
Or if your brain just does not like lines of data, you can make it appear in
indented single key: value pairs.
Here you can see for example that 1 Xorg Display has 1 or more Screens,
and each Screen has one or more Monitors. Note that this -Ga data first
appeared in inxi 3.1.00.
Sample [with bug in OpenGL output!, and showing -Ga newer values as well
for dual monitor setup, with one Xorg Screen]:
inxi -aGy1
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210]
vendor: Gigabyte
driver: nouveau
v: kernel
bus ID: 09:00.0
chip ID: 10de:0a65
Display: x11
server: X.Org 1.20.8
driver: nouveau
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa
display ID: :0.0
screens: 1
Screen-1: 0
s-res: 2560x1024
s-dpi: 96
s-size: 677x271mm (26.7x10.7")
s-diag: 729mm (28.7")
Monitor-1: DVI-I-0
res: 1280x1024
hz: 60
dpi: 96
size: 338x270mm (13.3x10.6")
diag: 433mm (17")
Monitor-2: VGA-0
res: 1280x1024
hz: 60
dpi: 86
size: 376x301mm (14.8x11.9")
diag: 482mm (19")
OpenGL:
renderer: N/A
v: N/A
direct render: N/A
2. Refactored and cleaned up print_data(), got rid of some early testing code,
dumped some unnecessary tests, simplified old tests, and optimized the new
indentation logic reasonably well. Hopefully the print_data() will not be
quite as much of a black box now as it was.
3. Even more drive vendors and ID matches!!! The list never ends!! An endless
series of new vendors and IDs of existing vendors sprout up, then float away.
And inxi follows them to the best of its ability. Thanks again to Linux-Lite
hardware database, which help make this ever expanding list possible, since
their users appear to use every disk known to humankind.
Changes:
1. When out of Display, and Console: shows, -S will not show dm: if no
display manager is detected, and if it is detected, it shows DM: since it's
not part of the Console: set of data. If out of X and --display is used to
get Xorg data out of X, it will show Desktop: set of data as normal, at least
it will show the stuff it can find. This resolves the issue where dm: appeared
to be a member of the set of Console: data, instead of either its own thing,
DM:, or a member of the set of Desktop: data.
2. For RAID Devices with sub Array-x: values, Array-x: is capitalized, it used
to be array-x: That was silly.
3. In USB, now Device-x: resets inside each Hub: so that the Device-x: are
numbered starting at 1 within each Hub:. This makes the counter behavior act
the same as it does in for example RAM Array-x: / Device-y:, where each Array-x:
resets Device-y: count to 1. This changes the old default of having Device-x:
not reset, to let you see the total number of devices plugged in or attached
no matter which hub they were plugged into, but the output actually gets
sort of confusing in single key: value pair mode per line.
4. The key: value syntax for weather was changed completely, now it works
like the rest of the features, with Report:... [Forecast:...] Locale:...
and Source:. Locale makes the source of the times and other date related
features, and the location if shown or available, much more obvious. Before
it was never clear if Current Time referred to your local or the remote
time, now it's clearly from the Locale: you specified with -W, or
the default -w local info. Also made Report 1 line if unwrapped, Forecast 1
line if not wrapped, and Locale: 1 line if not wrapped, which makes the output
easier to read.
NOTE: automated weather queries are NOT allowed, if you do it, you will be
banned!! inxi is NOT a desktop weather app!! Don't confuse it with one!!
Weather is just a small service to users who might for example want to check
the weather on a remote system, or something like that, and is not intended
to be used on a routine basis.
5. Cleaned up and re-ordered the --version output. It had some pretty old
contexts in the language, which were removed or cleaned up and brought up to
date. If you're wondering, I roughly use rsync and nano --version as guides
for what to show or not show there.
Bugs:
No bugs of any importance fixed or found!!
Fixes:
1. Tiny fix, didn't use partition/slice assignment in help menu. BSD
interest only since default partition is standard for Linux.
Enhancements:
1. Disc Vendors: added a large number of possible disk vendors, without having
actual detection data available for all of them, using a different source.
Also added, as usual, more disc vendor IDs from linux-lite hardware database,
always ready with more vendors!
2. Added groovy gorilla ID for ubuntu
3. Very nice usability change, mostly for support people, now if -y without
an integer is supplied, it will assign default column width of 80, which
is what you usually want for forums or issue reports, otherwise the output
can wrap outside the post or issue report, which is hard to read. Hopefully
support people will catch onto this one.
4. This closes issue #217 - Adds dmidecode based extra data:
-xxx - shows CPU voltage and external clock speeds
-a - shows CPU socket type and base/boost: speed items. These are --admin
options because neither is particularly reliable, sometimes they are right,
sometimes they aren't, as usual with dmi data. As far as tests show, base
speed, what dmidecode misleadingly calls 'Current Speed', which it isn't,
is the actual normal non throttled speed of the CPU / motherboard setup.
boost is what dmidecode calls 'Max Speed', which it also isn't, though
sometimes it is, as with AMD cpus with boost, and no overclocking. With
overclocking, sometimes base will be higher, sometimes the actual real
current cpu speeds will be higher than all the max/boost values.
Motherboard CPU socket type is likewise randomly correct, incorrect, empty,
misleading, depending on the age and type of the system, and the CPU
vendor. It appears that in general, AMD CPUs will be more or less right
if they have this data, and Intel CPUs will sometimes be right, sometimes
not, or empty. For > 1 CPU systems, the data is much less reliable.
switches, bug fixes, glitch fixes, enhancements, you name it, this has got it!!
Note that since this features a new primary line item (-j / --swap Swap:),
the version number has been bumped to 3.1.0, making this a major version
upgrade, the first since the new Perl inxi rewrite was launched, though of
course 3.0.0 contained many new line items as well, but this is the first
actually new line item since then.
Bugs:
1. Big bug fix: if -z used, and -p, and user had partitions mounted in $HOME
directory, the partitions would buggily duplicate in the output.
2. See Fix 1, inxi was reporting the wrong (or no in some cases) Xorg driver
because it was using the wrong Xorg log, it was only searcing in the original
/var/log/Xorg.0.log file, not the newer alternative path locations.
Fixes:
1. Both an enhancement and a fix, users reported Xorg log file location changes.
Fix is that now inxi uses wildcard searches of all readable locations that can
contain the log files, then collects a list of them, and uses the last modified
one. This ensures that the best possible guess is made about which actual
log file is current, which should lead to significantly more reliable Xorg
driver reports overall.
Note that this fix works for user level and root level, it will always use the
most recent readable file no matter what. For root, that should translate to
the most recent on an absolute level Xorg log file. This issue was caused by
gdm moving from Xorg.0.log to Xorg.1.log on some systems, but not all, and
also, the location is often but not always now:
~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.[01234..].log [except for root, which is why
root has to search for all user Xorg log files to find the most recent one.
There were many red-herrings in this issue report, so it took some research to
dig through those to the real data sources.
2. Now that the compositor detection is out of early testing mode, enabled
always on compositor detection for Wayland systems. Since the compositor
is the Wayland display server, it makes sense to always show it if Wayland.
Note that there is still no known way to actually reliably get Wayland data
beyond simple environmental variables that let inxi detect Wayland is running
the desktop. Lack of reliable logs or debugging tools across Wayland compositors
makes this entire process about 10-50x more difficult than it should have been.
3. In keeping with 2., also moved compositor: item to be right after server:
item.
4. Debian bug:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?dist=unstable;package=inxi
requested that HTTP::Tiny be set to default always check SSL certificates.
Now inxi does that, and --no-ssl flag disables this, which makes the Perl
http downloader now work roughly the same as wget, curl, etc.
5. Man page fixes, added pointer placeholders for out of alphabetical order
options, so you can find anything by looking down the alpha sorted lists, like:
--swap - See -j. Since inxi is running out of single letters that match new
features, it's easier to point man readers to the right item without them
having to already know it to find it. Also added --dbg [2-xx] pointer to
github inxi-perl/docs/inxi-values.txt so people interested can learn how to
trip the various per feature screen debuggers.
Enhancements:
1. updated ubuntu ids, added 'focal LTS'.
2. USB Graphic devices added. This will add support for USB graphics adapters,
an uncommon but existing category, often used in SOC boards, for example, but
also on desktops, and things like USB webcams. Leaving these off was really
just an oversight, the programming internally had the data, it just wasn't
using it.
3. Support added for TV card type multimedia devices in Graphics. That was
actually a long term oversight, I'd simply missed that in the device ID
documentation, one of the multimedia device subtypes is Video device.
4. Huge, massive, internal upgrade to allow for -Ga output, which gives a
technically accurate Xorg > Display > Screen > Monitor breakdown. Note that
Display and Screen data come from xdpyinfo, and Monitor info comes from xrandr,
but if xrandr is missing, the Screen information shows.
Technically for -G, -Gxx, end users see very little difference except the per
Screen / per Monitor resolutions are listed with a 1: type counter per item.
Note that Xorg Screens are NOT Monitors, they are a virtual space Xorg constructs
out of the pieces of hardware that make up the Screen space. In many cases,
1 Xorg Screen contains only 1 Monitor, but the dimensions or dpi are frequenty
different.
New output items:
Display: ... display ID: [Xorg Screen identifier, like :0.0]; screens: [Total Xorg
Screens in current Display]; [s-default: [if > 1 Screens, default Screen number]]
Screen-x: [Screen number]; s-res: [Xorg Screen resolution];
s-dpi: [Xorg Screen dpi]; s-size: [Xorg Screen mm (inch) size;
s-diag: [diagonal of Xorg Screen size]
Monitor-x: [Monitor Xorg ID]; res: [Actual monitor pixel dimensions];
hz: [actual monitor reported frequency]; dpi: [actual monitor dpi as calculated
from actual monitor resolution/size; size: [actual monitor size in mm (inch);
diag: [actual diagonal size in mm (inch).
4a. -Gxx now shows Xorg s-dpi: for the Screen as well, after the main resolution
section for -G.
5. Big improvement in error messages and logging for Xorg driver detections,
this logic is much more robust now, but after the main driver fix, also much less
likely to ever be seen.
6. Almost not visible to users, but major internal graphics refactor allows now
for more modular treatment, and eventual Wayland data sourcing. Currently
most Wayland data sourcing is in stub form, or only logically possible, but
as it grows possible (if ever, since Wayland protocal appears to have totally
neglected enforcing single location logging, and single tool debugging for
the entire Wayland protocol of compositors, a massive oversight in my view).
The -Ga refactors internally made this much more possible, and I integrated
switches and tests, and fallbacks, and stubs in some locations, so it was
clear where current Xorg specific logic is, and where future Wayland logic
will fit in, sort of anyway.
7. Debugger tools added for new features, or most of them.
8. New primary line item: --swap / -j. This moves all swap data to a dedicated
Swap: line, which looks roughly the same as Partition: lines, but when -j/--swap
is used, all swap types, not only physical partition swaps, show. This should
make some users happy.
9. Added more cpu family IDs for Zen 2 series of cpu, tweaked some later
Intel cpu family ids in terms of cpu arch name tool.
10. By request, added ability filter out all UUID or Partition Label
strings in -j, -o, -Sa, -p, -P. Those are tripped by --filter-label and
--filter-uuid. Mostly useful in fringe cases, for example, replacing
label or UUID from -Sa kernel boot parameters with root=LABEL=<filter>,
or in cases you want to show full -v8 output without showing UUID or Labels,
whatever.
11. Added --no-dig/--dig plus configuration option NO_DIG=true. This disables
dig in cases where dig is installed but failed due to maybe network firewall
rules or something, and WAN IP detection fails. Normally you always want
to use dig, it's faster, more reliable, and safer, than all the other regular
downloader based methods, but we have seen server setups where for some reason
those types of dig requests were blocked, thus disabling WAN IP detection.
12. Added in WAN IP failure case, if dig was used, suggestion to try
again with --no-dig, since most users are unlikely to learn about this issue,
or the solution to it.
13. Added single letter shortcut -J for --usb, maybe this will help people
discover usb component of inxi, now you can request for instance: inxi -FJaz
14. Added xonsh to supported shells, that had tripped a perl undefined value
for start client bug since xonsh uses single word for version, xonsh/234
so the default value, 2nd word, was undefined.
15. More SSD and USB drive vendors from the endless fountain over at
Linux Hardware Database (linuxliteos.com).
Changes:
1. Small change in how screen resolutions are output in -G non -a mode,
now each Screen / Monitor will increment by 1 the 1: [resolution~hz] key.
This helps make it more readable. Note that in non -a mode, the increments
are just based on Screen, then Monitor, Monitor, Screen, and so on, counts.
Most users will only have one Screen systems, but more advanced setups may use
the Xorg > 1 Screen, each screen able to run > 1 monitors.
The counts in say, a 2 Screen system, with 3 monitors, would be:
1: res1 [from screen 0, monitor 1] 2: res2 [from screen 0, monitor 2]
3: res3 [from screen 1, monitor 1.
If xrandr is not installed, it would show:
1: res1 [from screen 0] 2: res2 [from screen 1]
1. Fixed undefined error that could happen, in rare cases, in hdd_temp logic.
Fixes:
1. Fixed Elbrus cpu nazming, model 9 is 8CV, not 8CB (Cyrillic error)
2. Preventitive, was not using '-' quite correctly in all regex ranges.
3. Had wrong desktop string listed in Unity
4. Reordered Family/Drive model in usb drive reports, it's to make it
more obvious what is what.
5. Adjusted indexing of splits to get better results in corner cases.
6. Fixed some numbering issues.
7. Added trimming n1 from nvme0 type names for nvme, this corrects some
issues users were having.
8. Fixed a division by 0 error in smartctl data grabber.
9. Fixed a Perl issue, didn't realize perl treats 000 as a string, not 0.
10. Another Perl fix, int() only wants to get numeric values sent to it,
I'd assumed a different behavior, non numerics get converted to 0, but that's
not how Perl sees things. Things like this, by the way, are why Perl is so
absurdly fast.
Enhancements:
1. More disk vendors. The list will never be complete!! We have found eternal
churn!! Thanks to linux lite hardware database as always.
2. Big one!!! Now inxi uses smartctl data, if installed, for getting advanced
drive information (with -a). See man and help for details. Will show failing drives,
etc. Lots of info can be available, but sometimes data is not in smartctl db,
so inxi can't find it, that's not an inxi bug, it's just how it is.
3. Made hours on more human readable, into days/hours, for -a smartctl disk
report.
4. Added $test[12] for smartctl data printout, and $test[13] for disk array print out.
Note that advanced debugger outputs can change or vary depending on what is being
worked on so don't in general rely on these always being around. But they do
tend to say stuck in place once I add them.
5. Added some nvme stuff, spare reserve, if you need it, you'll appreciate it,
if not, you'll never know it's there.
6. By request from some forum issue thread: made --host only be shown onif not
--filter or not --host. This makes -z remove hostname, but retains ability to
do absolute overrides. Hostname should have always been filtered out like that,
it was an oversight. I think that was Manjaro who asked that, but I forget.
Note that this change, as usual, will not alter expected behaviors if users
have config item for hostname set.
7. Added support for picom compositor, thanks user codebling for that, I think
that's compiz fork, the real branch that is that is being developed.
Bugs:
1. issue #200 - forgot to add all variants for -p, now works with --partition-full
and --partitions-full
2. issue #199 - another one, forgot to add --disk to -D for long version. Thanks
adrian15 for both of these, he was testing something and discovered these were
missing.
3. Issue #187 an issue with RAID syntax not being handled in a certain case,
thanks EnochTheWise for following through on this one. This turned out to be
a bad copy paste, a test pattern did not match the match pattern.
Fixes:
1. Fixed some docs typos.
2. Issue #188 fixed protections and filters for some glxinfo output handlers.
3. Issue #195, for Elbrus bit detection.
4. Added filter to cpu data, was not skipping if arm, so Model string
was treated numerically.
Enhancements:
1. Added rescatux to Debian system base detections. This closes issue #202, again
from adrian15, thanks.
2. For cpu architecture, updated for latest AMD ryzen and other families, like
Zen 3, which is just coming out re available data. Also latest Intel, which are
trickier to ID right now, but I think I got the latest ones right,
That's things like coffee lake, amber lake, comet lake, etc.
3. Huge one, full (hopefully out of the box) Russian Elbrus CPU support. Thanks
to the alt-linux and the others who helped provide data and feedback to get support.
Note that this was also part of correcting 64 bit detection for e2k type, which
is how Elbrus IDs internally. See issue #197 which I've left open for the time
being for more information on this CPU and how it's now handled by inxi.
Note all available data should now work for Elbrus, including physical cpu/core
counts etc. Elbrus do not show flag information, nor do they use min/max speed,
so that data isn't available, but everything else seems to work well.
4. Eternal disk vendors. Thanks linux lite hardware database, you continue to
help make the disk vendor feature work by supplying every known vendor ever seen.
5. To close debian bug report https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=942194
Note that the fix is simply to give the user the option to disable this behavior
with the new --no-sudo and NO_SUDO configuration file options. This issue should
never have been filed as a bug since even the poster admitted it was a wishlist
item, but because of how debian bug tracker works, it's hard to get rid of
invalid bugs. Note that this is the internal use of sudo for hddtemp and file,
not starting inxi with sudo, so using this option or configuration item just
removes sudo from the command. Note that because the user did not do as
requested, and never actually filed a github wishlist issue, and since his
request was vague and basically pointless, the fix is just to let you switch
off sudo, that's all.
Bugs:
1. Issue #188 exposed a situation in glxinfo where the required opengl fields are
present but contain null data. This happens when a system does not have the required
opengl drivers, which was the case here. inxi failed to handle that. Thanks
LinuxMonger for posting the required data to figure this corner case out.
2. Fixed a long time bug in Disk vendor ID, there was an eq (string equals)
where it was supposed to use regex pattern match. Oops. Would have led to
disk vendor id failures in several cases.
Fixes:
1. help, man updates for RAM/Memory data, more clarifications.
2. Refactored RepoData class/package, to make it easier to handle repo string
data, and make it all overall cleaner internally, and enable future extensions
to certain features in inxi that may or may not one day become active.
3. Added to some regex compares \Q$VAR\E to disable regex characters in strings.
I should have used that a long time ago, oh well, better late than never!
4. Found a horrible case were xdpyinfo uses 'preferred' instead of the actual
pixel dimensions, shame on whoever allowed that output!!! shame! Had to add
a workaround to make sure numeric values are present, if not, then use the
fallback, which means, 2x more data parsing to get data that should not
require that, but in this example, it did (an Arch derivative, but it could
be xdpyinfo itself, don't know)>
Enhancements:
1. More fixes on issue #185. Thanks tubecleaner for finding and provding required
data to really solve a set of RAM issues that apply particularly in production
systems. This issue report led to 2 new options: --memory-short, which only
shows a basic RAM report.
Memory: RAM: total: 31.43 GiB used: 14.98 GiB (47.7%)
Report: arrays: 1 slots: 4 modules: 2 type: DDR4
And a 2nd, --memory-modules, only shows the occupied slots. This can be
useful in situations where it's a server or vm with a lot of slots, most empty:
Memory: RAM: total: 31.43 GiB used: 15.44 GiB (49.1%)
Array-1: capacity: 256 GiB slots: 4 EC: None
Device-1: DIMM 1 size: 16 GiB speed: 2400 MT/s
Device-2: DIMM 1 size: 16 GiB speed: 2400 MT/s
Note that both of these options trigger -m, so -m itself is not required.
2. More disk vendors!! The list never ends! Thanks linux-lite hardware database
and users for supplying, and buying/obtaining, apparently every disk known to
mankind.
3. Added fallback XFCE detection, in cases were the system does not have xprop
installed, it's still possible to do a full detection of xfce, including toolkit,
so now inxi does that, one less dependency to detect one more desktop.
4. Added vmwgfx driver to xorg drivers list. Note, I've never actually seen this
in the wild, but I did see it as the kernel reported driver from lspci, so it
may exist.
Unfixed:
1. Issue #187 EnochTheWise (?) did not supply the required debugger data so there
is a RAID ZFS issue that will not get fixed until the required debugger data is
supplied. Please do not waste all our time filing an issue if you have no
intention of actually following through so we can get it fixed.
Note that a key way we get issues here is from Perl errors on the screen, which are
a frequent cause of someone realizing something is wrong. This is why I'm not going
to do a hack fix for the RAID ZFS issue, then the error messages will go away, and
it will likely never get handled. For examples of good, useful, productive issue
reports, and how to do them right: #188 and #185, both of which led to good
improvements in how inxi handles corner cases in those areas.
Bugs:
1. Issue #185 exposed a small long standing bug in ram max module size logic.
Was not retaining the value each loop iteration, which could lead to way off
max module size guesses. Note that this could lead to a VERY wrong max module size
report.
2. Issue #185 also exposed a rarely seen undefined value for ram reports, was
not tested for undefined, now is.
Fixes:
1. cleanup of comments in start client debugger that made it unclear.
2. Got rid of all the legacy development modules that were in inxi-perl/modules.
These were totally out of date and pointless to retain.
Enhancements:
1. Added eoan ubuntu 19-10 release name
2. Added zen cpu model ID.
3. Disk vendors and new vendor IDs added. Thanks linuxlite hardware database.
4. Made a backend tool to check for new unhandled disks, this makes updating
disk/vendor IDs a lot easier.
5. Updated inxi-perl/docs with new links etc.
Bugs:
1. issue #182 - in freebsd, there was an oversight in the pciconf parser, it
was using unfiltered strings as regex pattern, and of course, a string flipped
an error. Fix was to add the regex cleaner to the string before it's used in test.
2. NOTE: issue #182 had a second bug, but the issue poster didn't follow up with
data or output so it couldn't be fixed. This was related to a syntax change in
usbdevs -v output in FreeBSD. Such changes are too common, but it might also
simply be a variant I have not seen or handled, but so far no data, so can't fix.
Don't blame me if you get this bug, but do post requested debugger data if you
want it fixed!
Fixes:
1. Updated man for weather, explained more clearly how to use country codes for
weather output. More clarifying in general about weather location, and weather
restrictions.
Enhancements:
1. Added avx/avx2 to default flag list in -C short form. Thanks damentz from
liquorix for clarifying why that was a good idea. Note the initial issue came up
in a Debian issue report, not here. People!! please post issues here, and don't bug
maintainers with feature requests! Maintainers aren't in a position to add a feature,
so you should go straight to the source.
1.a. Created in inxi-perl/docs new doc file: cpu-flags.txt, which explains all
the flags, and also covers the short form flags and explains why they are used.
2. To resolve another issue, I made a new documentation file:
inxi-perl/docs/inxi-custom-recommends.txt
This is instructions for maintainers of distros who do not use rpm/apt/pacman but
still want the --recommends feature to output their package pool package names for
missing packages. I decided to not allow more than the default 3 package managers
because no matter what people say, if I allow in more, the maintainer will vanish
or lose interest, and I'll be stuck having to maintain their package lists forever.
Also, it's silly to even include that package list for any distro that does not
use rpm/apt/pacman, since the list is just wasted lines. Instructions in doc file
show what to change, and how, and has an example to make it clear. Odds of this
actually being used? Not high, lol, but that's fine, if people want it done, they
can do it, if not, nothing bad happens, it just won't show any suggested install
package, no big deal.
3. Using the new disk vendor method, added even more disk vendors. Thanks
linux litet hardware database!!
4. EXCITING!! A new --admin/-a option, suggested by a user on techpatterns.com/forums/
Now -S or -b or -F with -a option for GNU/Linux shows the kernel boot parameters,
from /proc/cmdline. Didn't find anything comparable for BSDs, if you can tell me
where to look, I'll add it for those too, but wasn't anywhere I looked. Do the
BSDs even use that method? Don't know, but the logic is there, waiting to be used
if someone shows me how to get it cleanly. The 'parameters:' item shows in the main
'System:' -S output, and will just show the entire kernel parameters used to boot.
This could be very helpful to distros who often have to determine if for example
graphics blacklists are correctly applied for non free drivers, like nomodeset etc,
or if the opposite is present.
For forum/distro support, they just have to ask for: inxi -ba and they will see t
the relevant graphics info, for instance, or -SGaxxx, or -Faxxx, whatever is used
to trigger in this case the graphics and system lines.
5. Updated man/help for 4 as well, now explains what they will see with --admin/
-a options and -S. Good user suggestion, I wish all new features were this easy,
heh.
Bugs:
1. For sensors, in some cases, gpu failed to show correctly. This
should be corrected.
Fixes:
1. Made help/man explanations of weather changes more clear.
Particularly in regards to no automated query info. But also for supported
location syntaxes.
2. Some corner cases of null weather data return null and tripped
a null data error. This is corrected.
3. Added city duplicate filter to weather output, this hopefully will
in some cases avoid printing city name twice, depends on weather source.
4. Removed --weather-source option 0, that no longer works so all code was
removed.
5. More deb822 fixes, loosened up even more syntax. That's a poorly designed
config syntax, hard to work with.
Enhancements:
1. Lots of new disk vendors. So many!! Thanks linux-lite hardware database!
switched to a new method of getting disk name/vendor data, now it's a lot easier
to check for new ones.
2. Added fancybar to desktop info.
Fixes:
1. In case with zero wind speed, it now shows zero, not N/A, as expected.
Enhancements:
1. Depending on weather source used:
* Shows precipitation, not rain/snow.
* Adds Sunrise/sunset (most sources do not have this)
Bugs:
1. Maybe the vendor/product regex, which when + was used, would put out
errors.
2. Maybe Fix 4, since that could lead to incorrect behavior when sudo
is involved depending on sudo configuration.
3. BIG: current inxi weather will probably fail if not updated to this or
newer versions!! Not an inxi bug per se, but your users will see it as one.
Fixes:
1. Fixed Patriot disk ID.
2. Fixes for PPC board handling.
3. Regex cleaner fixes, this could lead to error in special cases of product
vendor names.
4. crazy from frugalware pointed out that $b_root detection was flawed, and
relied on a bad assumption, particularly for sudo. As usual, he's right, that
is now corrected, and uses $< Perl native to determine UID.
Enhancements:
1. Added septor to Debian system base.
2. Removed quiet filters for downloaders when using --dbg 1, now you see the
entire download action for curl/wget downloads. This went along with
issue # 174
3. New feature: --wan-ip-url. This closed issue #174. Also has user config
option: WAN_IP_URL as well to make changes permanent.
4. Added --dbg 1 to man and help. The other --dbg options are random and can
change, but --dbg 1 is always for downloading, so might as well tell people
about it.
5. To anticipate the loss of a major weather API, inxi is redone to use smxi.org
based robust API. This also allows for a new switch, --weather-source (or --ws
for shorter version), options 0-9, which will trigger different APIs on smxi.org.
Added WEATHER_SOURCE configuration option as well. Note that 4-9 are not
currently active. Also added in better error handling for weather.
The main benefit here is that inxi is now largely agnostic to the weather APIs
used, and those can be changed with no impact to inxi users who are running
frozen pool inxi's, or who have not updated their inxi versions.
NOTE: all inxi versions older than 3.0.31 will probably fail for weather
quite soon. So update your inxi version in your repos!!
6. More disk vendors IDs and matches. Thanks linuxlite hardware database.
7. Going along with weather changes, added, if present, cloud cover, rain, and
snow reports. Those are for previously observed hour.
8. Small change to Intel CPU architecture, taking a guess on stepping for
skylake/Cascade lake ID. Guessing if stepping is > 4, it's cascade lake. But
could not find this documented, so it's a guess. At worst, it means that Cascade
lake, which must be a later steppingi than 4, will not be ID'ed as skylake.
9. Documentation updates for data sources.
Changes:
1. inxi now uses a new system to get weather data. There is no longer a risk
of weather failing if the API used locally in inxi fails or goes away. This
change should be largely invisible to casual users.
2. In weather, moved dewpoint to be after humidity, which makes a little more
sense.
Bugs:
1. Both a fix and a bug, in that inxi had an out of date list of Xorg drivers.
This led to all the newer Intel devices failing to show their drivers in the
Xorg driver lines, like i915, i965, and so on. Updated to full current list of
Xorg drivers. This is not technically a bug since it's simply things that came
into existence after that logic was last updated. But it looks like a bug.
Fixes:
1. Issues #170 and #168 showed a problem with inxi believing it was running in IRC
when Ansible or MOTD started inxi. This is because they are not tty so trip the
non tty flag, which assumes it's in IRC in that case. The fix was to add a
whitelist of known clients based on the parent name inxi discovers while running
inside that parent. MOTD confirmed fixed, Ansible not confirmed. Why do people file
issue reports then not follow them? Who knows.
Note that this issue is easy to trip by simply doing this: echo 'fred' | inxi
which disables the tty test as well. To handle that scenario, that is, when inxi is
not first in the pipe, I added many known terminal client names to the whitelists.
This works in my tests, though the possible terminals, or programs with embedded
terminals, is quite large, but inxi handles most of them automatically. When it
doesn't, file an issue and I'll add your client ID to the whitelist, and use --tty
in the meantime.
2. Issue #171 by Vascom finally pinned down the wide character issue which manifests
in some character sets, like greek or russian utf8. The fix was more of a work-around
than a true fix, but inxi now simply checks the weather local time output for wide
characters, and if detected, switches the local date/time format to iso standard,
which is does not contain non ascii characters as far as I can tell. This seemed to
fix the issue.
3. Added iso9660 from excluded file systems for partitions, not sure how inxi
missed that one for so long.
4. See bug 1, expanded and made current supported intel drivers, and a few other
drivers, so now inxi has all the supported xorg drivers again. Updated docs as well
to indicate where to get that data.
Enhancements:
1. As usual, more disk vendor/product ID matches, thanks to linuxlite hardware
database, which never stops providing new or previously unseen disk ids. Latest
favorite? Swissarmy knife maker victorinox Swissflash usb device.
2. Added Elive system base ID.
3. Added Nutyx CARDS repo type.
Bugs:
1. See fix 4, incorrect positioning of Trinity desktop detection logic.
Fixes:
1. Vascom reports in issue #169 that some systems are making the /sys cpu
vulnerability data root read only. Added <root required> test and output.
2. A while back, they added several chassis types in the smbios
specifications. I used an older specification pdf file, this is now corrected.
Note that realworld use of the new types exists, like tablet, mini pc, and so
on. This missing data caused Machine report to list N/A as machine type when
it was actually known. I'd been using an older specification PDF, and had
failed to look at the actual spec download page, where you could clearly see
the newer spec file. Corrected this in the inxi docs as well.
3. Made gentoo repo reader check for case insensitive values for enabled.
Also extended that to other repo readers that use similar syntax, they are
all now case insensitive (Yes/yes/YES, that is)
4. Fixed incorrect handling of Trinity desktop ID, that needed to happen in
the kde ID block, as first test, not after it. Caused failure in Q4OS trinity,
and maybe others. I'm not sure why inxi had the detection where it was, it
made no real sense, so that's now nicely integrated, so these types of
failures should not happen again. Thanks Q4OS for exposing that issue.
Enhancements:
1. Added TDM and CDM display managers. Never seen either (Q4OS uses TDM), TDM
corrected. CDM not confirmed, don't know if it's still around, but if it is
similar to TDM re cdm.pid in /run, it should be detected fine.
2. Added more disk vendors/ids, the list never stops!! Thanks LinuxLite
Hardware database, your users seem to use every disk known to humanity.
3. Added Debian derived Q4OS distro ID and system base handler.
Bugs:
1. ARM fix, odroid > 1 cpu speeds not showing correctly.
2. Ansible start fixes.
3. Fringe Battery failures, see Pinebook.
Fixes:
1. Removed null data message 'old system' since that's not always the case.
2. Added support for > 1 CPU speeds in systems with > 1 CPU.
3. Added is_numeric test for sudo version tests, that was tripping errors in
rare cases.
4. Fine tuned terminal size setting to check that is int to correct the
Ansible problem.
5. ARM Pinebook fixes, battery, cpu. This also fixes corner cases where
the battery charge state is missing but it is a systme battery.
Enhancments:
1. Added more disk ID matches/vendors. Thanks LinuxLite Hardware database!!
2. UKUI, ukwm, ukui-panel added to desktop data.
3. Added PopOS to system base.
4. Ansible/Chef user noted that inxi believes that it is running in IRC when
started by Ansible / Chef (not sure about Chef but assuming it's the same).
Added flag --tty flag to force inxi to believe it's running in shell no matter
what starts it. Note that this fix is not confirmed because the person didn't
confirm the fix. Annoying.
5. Added Ubuntu disco to ubuntu_id.
Bugs:
1. As a fix (3), failure to handle spaces in mount source names. More of a fix than
a bug, since it was an old issue #63.
2. OSX errors, BSD errors, but not really inxi errors or bugs, more weird data
tripping null data or unreadable file errors, but I'll call those bugs since they
look like bugs to end users. See Fixes for more.
3. See Fix 4, this is sort of a bug, inxi failed to return expected values on
success/failure.
Fixes:
1. One of the documented config items, COLS_MAX_NO_DISPLAY had not been implemented
internally. This is now corrected.
2. Apple OSX was returning errors, those were fixed.
3. Finally handled ancient issue #63, support now there for spaces in remote source
name. This means that both spaces in source block name, and mount point name, are
in theory both handled now. This was also to fix an osx issue #164 despite the
fact that technically I do not support osx beyond fixing errors, but since in this
case the issue was a long standing one, I fixed it for everything.
4. Big fix, I'd completely left undone proper unix type error number returns in
inxi, oops. Thanks Unit193 for noticing that and prompting me to fix it. Now inxi
returns integer success/error numbers as expected.
5. OSX xml based version info broke, of course, naturally it would, so I added in
an osx fallback where if no distro version detected, use fallback unix method, which
is what all the other unices use.
6. Along with space in source name, fixed mapped handling a bit more too for
partitions.
6. Added cifs remote file system to disk size used blacklist, and iso9660. Not sure
how I'd missed those for so long.
7. OpenBSD vmstat in 6.3 changed the column order for avm/fre, and changed to a,
sigh, human readable default format, in M, so to handle this for all bsds, I had
to make a dynamic column detection for avm and fre, and use those after, and also
i had to add in a M detection, if found, *1024 and strip out M, sigh.
8. OpenBSD, another alternate ordering/syntax issue, the dmesg.boot data for disks
does not always use the same order in comma separated list, saw user case where
the first item after : was the MB size, not the second. Made detection dynamic.
9. Due to Android case, found types where no cpu speed data was found, no max speed
at least, which tripped an error due to null data for ARM, this is now handled,
now cpu speed min/max read permissions in /sys are checked first before trying to
read, and default failures are better handled.
10. On man page, added in clarification of the moving of Memory: item from Info:
line to ram Memory: line, explaining when it appears where. I do not removing the
item from -I, I may revert that change, I find it non-intuitive to move that
around.
Enhancements:
1. Added display manager Ly, plus Ly version number. Thanks NamedKitten, this
closes issues #166#165#162
2. Improved documentation a bit to avoid ambiguity re how to get colors in output.
That handles issue #161, thanks fugo for the nudge to improve the documentation.
3. First inxi on Android tests, using termux, which has a debian based apt
type installer, got inxi running on at least two devices, including pixel2, but
discovered that apparently as of android 5, /sys is now locked up in terms of
wildcard reads, but further analysis is required, but as of now, inxi works in
termux, but fails to get any Device data for A, G, or N. Thus it also fails to match
IF to Device, so none of the IP data shows up. The latter will probably be fixed
since Android has ip and ifconfig already, or termux does, but so far I found no
way to get device data for ARM in Android 5.x and greater (checked on
android 7 and 9 in real phones).
4. More disk vendors!! thanks linuxlite / linux hardware database for offering an
apparently never ending list of obscure and not so obscure disk vendors and
products.
5. While I was unable to get confirmation or documentation on file names for
tce repo files, I guessed that localmirrors would be used, but this may be
any random text file in /opt at all, no extensions, I'd have to test to confirm
or deny possible values.
6. To handle more complex debugger failures, added --debug-no-proc,
--debug-no-exit, to skip or enable completion where proc or sys debugger is hanging.
Changes:
1. Changed vendor in A, G, and N to -x, not -xxx, this data seems much more useful
and reliable than I'd first expected when I made the feature, the -xxx was more
an indication of my lack of trust in the method and source, but so far it seems
pretty good, so I bumped it up to an -x option. Note that also, it's quite useful
to know the vendor of, say, your network or graphics card, not just the actual
device internal data, which is all inxi has ever shown previously.
2. Small change, if no partition type data is found, dev, remote, mapped, default
now says 'source:' instead of 'dev:' which makes more sense. Note that df calls
that column 'source', so I decided to go with their language for the default not
found case. Also changed mapped to say mapped. This was part of a bit of a
refactor of the partition type logic, enhanced by adding mapped to existing types,
and moved the entire type detection block into the main data generator, and out
of the data line constructor.
Optimizations:
1. Tested, and dumped, List::Util first() as a possible way to speed up grep
searches of arrays, where the goal is just to see if something is in an array. My
expectation was that first(), returning the first found instance of the search term,
would of course be faster since it will always exit the search loop was met with
the sad fact that first() is about 2 to 4 times SLOWER than grep() native builtin.
I tested this fairly carefully, and used NYTProf optimizer tool and the results were
totally consistent, first() was always much slower than grep(), no matter what size
the array is. I assume this means the core C programming that makes grep is simply
much better than the File::Util module programming that makes first(). Removed
first() and now know that nothing will be faster than grep so no need to look there
for speed improvements.
The moral of the story: just because something should in theory be faster, does
sadly not mean it will be faster, for there are bigger things at work, skill of
the programmers who made the logic, how perl handles external vs internal tools,
and so on. As an aside, this forms a fairly consistent pattern where I've found
Perl by itself to be faster than modules in many cases, that is, it's faster to
write the code out than to use a module in many cases that I have tested, so I
will always test such ideas and dump every one that is in fact slower than native
Perl builtins.
