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6c9b259375 | changelog, added one more bug item. | ||
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244a8f3035 | zfs raid level fix | ||
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3a625f13ea |
Failed to use all possible sd block device major number matches, which
led to false disk total/used reports, that is, totals less than used. |
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287b8cfe77 | tiny fix for weird sdaj type > 26 drive systems | ||
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a68b1e8358 |
Bug fixes!! New Feature!! Edits, cleanups!!
Bugs: 1. Small bug, wrong regex would make mdraid unused report never show. Was looking for ^used, not ^unused. No idea how that happened, but it's fixed. 2. Big RAID bug. Due to never having seen an 'inactive' state mdraid dataset, inxi had a bunch of bugs around that. I'd assumed active and inactive would have roughly the same syntax, but they don't. This is now corrected. Thanks Solus user for giving me the required data. This case when not corrected resulted in a spray of errors as RAID ran, and a fairly incomplete RAID report for mdraid. 3. A bug that probably never impacted anyone, but in SMART the matching rules failed to match field name Size[s]? in the logical/physical block sizes. However, those were already coming in from I believe pre-existing /sys data for the drives but now it's fixed anyway. I had not realized that smartctl made it plural when logical/physical were different, and singular when they were the same. Fixes: 1. Going along with bug 2, fixed some other admin/non admin report glitches. Made patterns more aggressively matching, whitelist based to avoid the types of syntax issues that caused bug 2. 2. Added 'faulty' type to mdraid matches, that had not been handled. 3. Found even more of those pesky 'card' references in help and man page, replaced all of them with 'device[s]'. 4. Subtle fix, for debugger data collectors, added -y1 support, which can be useful at times. Enhancements: 1. In USB data grabber, added fallback case for unspecified type cases, now uses a simple name/driver string test to determine if it's graphics, audio, or bluetooth. This was mainly to make sure bluetooth usb devices get caught. 2. New feature! -E/--bluetooth. Gives an -n like bluetooth Device-x/Report. Requires for the 'Report:' part hciconfig, which most all distros still have in their repos. With -a, shows an additional Info: line that has more obscure bluetooth hci data: acl-mtu sco-mtu, link-policy, link-mode, service-classes. This closes the ancient, venerable issue #79, filed by mikaela so many years ago. Better late than never!! However, features like this were really difficult in legacy bash/gawk inxi 2.x, and became fairly easy with inxi 3.x, so I guess we'll slowly whittle away at these things when the mood, and global pandemic lockdowns, make that seem like a good idea... Includes a small lookup table to match LMP number to Bluetooth version (bt-v:), hopefully that's a correct way to determine bluetooth version, there was some ambiguity about that. -x, -xx, and -xxx function pretty much the same way as with -A, -G, and -N devices, adding Chip IDs, Bus IDs, version info, and so on. Since this bluetooth report does not require root and is an upper case option, it's been added to default -F, similar to -R, and -v 5, where raid/bluetooth shows only if data is found. With -v7 or -R or -E, always shows, including no data found message. Includes a fallback report Report-ID: case where for some reason, inxi could not match the HCI ID with the device. That's similar to IF-ID in -n, which does the same when some of the IFs could not be matched to a specific device. 3. For -A, -G, -N, and -E, new item for -xxx, classID, I realized this is actually useful for many cases of trying to figure out what devices are, though most users would not know what to do with that information, but that's why it's an -xxx option! 4. Yes! You've been paying attention!! More disk vendors, and new vendor IDs!! The cornucopia flows its endless bounty over the grateful data collector, and, hopefully, inxi users!! Thanks as always, linux-lite hardware database, and linux-lite users who really seem set on the impossible project of obtaining all the disks/vendors known to man. Changes: 1. Small change in wording for mdraid report: 'System supported mdraid' becomes 'Supported mdraid levels' which is cleaner and much more precise. |
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1e2d470c69 |
That damned Kate editor bug where it randomly sprays out characters
that were in the desktop clipboard caused 3 random pastes of the characters 'failed' into the man page. Kate needs to get their damned crap in order!!! It's becoming unusable. |
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23b86ad5f2 | typo fix | ||
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New version, man page, bug fixes, changes, adjustments and cleanups!!!
Special thanks to mr. mazda for his ongoing suggestions, ideas, and observations. Bugs: 1. In certain corner cases, it appears that lsusb has blank lines, which tripped errors in inxi output when the usb parser was trying to access split keys that did not exist. Added in check to make sure split actually resulted in expected data. 2. A red face bug, I'd left the output debugger switched on with json output, so it was printing out the json data structure with Dumper, that's now switched off. Hope this doesn't mess anyone up, but it would have mattered only if the person was using: --output json --output-type print It did not effect xml output. Fixes: 1. Got rid of extra level of -L data structure and output handler. Not visible to users, but still irksome, so nice to get that fixed. Recursive structures are confusing, lol, but this extra level was pointless, but to fix it required redoing the logic a bit for both data generator and output feature. 2. Added in support for --display :0.0, previously it did not support the .0 addition, but why not, if it works for people, good, if not, makes no difference. 3. There were some missing cases for LVM missing data messages, so the following fixes were added: * In cases where lsblk is installed and user is non root, or lvs is not installed, but no lvm data is present, inxi now shows the expected 'Message: No LVM data found.' instead of the permissions or missing program error that showed before. If lsblk is not installed, and lvm is installed (or missing), with lvs not root readable, the permissiosn message (or missing program) will show since at that point, inxi has no way to know if there is lvm data or not. * Not an inxi, but rather an Arch Linux packaging bug, the maintainer of lvm has made lvs and vgs fail to return error number on non root start, which is a bug (pvs does return expected error return). Rather than wait for this bug to be fixed, inxi will just test if lvs and lsblk lvm data, it will show permissions message, otherwse the no lvm data message as expected. I think these cover the last unhandled LVM cases I came across, so ideally, the lvm data messages will be reasonably correct. 4. Some man page lintian fixes. 5. Changed usb data parser to use 'unless' instead of 'if' in tests since it's easier to read unless positive tests are true than if negative or negative etc. Enhancements: 1. Since I see too often things like -F --no-host -z which is redundant, the help and man now make it more clear that -z implies --no-host. 2. Even though it's not that pointful, I added in derived Arch Linux system base like Ubuntu/Debian have. It's not that meaningful because unlike Ubuntu/Debian, where you want to know what version the derived distro is based on, Arch is rolling thus no versions, but I figured, why not, it's easy to do, so might as well make the system base feature a bit more complete. Note that the way I did this requires that the distro is ID'ed as its derived distro nanme, not Arch Linux, that will vary depending on how they did their os-release etc, or distro files, but that's not really an inxi issue, that's up to them. From what I've been seeing, it looks like more of the derived distros are being ID'ed in inxi as the derived name, so those should all work fine. Note that seeing 'base:' requires -Sx. 3. More disk vendors!! More disk vendor IDs!!! I really dug into the stuff, and refactored slightly the backend tools I use, so it's now a bit easier to handle the data. Thanks linux-lite hardware database, as always, for having users that really seemt to use every disk variant known to humanity. Changes: 1. In -G, made FAILED: lower case, and also moved it to be after unloaded: It was too easy to think that the loaded driver had failed. Also to make it more explicit, made output like this, in other words, driver: is a container for the possible children: loaded: unloaded: failed: alternate: which should be easier to parse and read without mixing up what belongs to what. driver: loaded: modesetting unloaded: nouvean,vesa alternate: nv driver: loaded: amdgpu unloaded: vesa failed: ati Note that if there is no unloaded: driver, failed: would still appear to come after loaded:, but hopefully it's more clear now. Basically what we found was that the presence of the uppercase FAILED: drew the eye so much that it was sometimes not noted that it was a key: following the driver: item, which itself because it did not list explicitly loaded: was not as clear as it could have been. By making failed: the same as the other key names visually, hopefully it will be less easy to think that the loaded: driver failed: In a sense, this is a legacy issue, because the original use of FAILED: was for non free video drivers, to see when xorg had failed to load them, but over more recent years, the most frequent thing I have been seeing is odd things like failed: ati, when xorg tries to load the legacy ati driver when amdgpu is being used. 2. Likewise, for RAID mdraid and zfs changed FAILED: to Failed:, again, to make it more consistent with the other types. 3. In help menu and man page, removed legacy 'card(s)' in -A, -G, -N, and replaced that with 'device(s)', which is the more accurate term, since the days when these things were only addon cards are long behind us. I had not noticed that, but it caught me eye and I realized it was a very deprecated and obsolete syntax, which did not match the way inxi describes devices today. 4. It was pointed out how incoherent the naming of the item for setting wrap width, --indent-min and config item INDENT_MIN were super confusing, since it was neither indent or minimum, it was in fact wrap maximum, so the new options and config items are --wrap-max and WRAP_MAX. Note that the legacy values will keep working, but it was almost impossible in words to explain this option because the option text was almost the exact opposite of what the option actually does. Redid the man and help explanations to make the function of this option/config item more clear. 5. Made -J/--usb Hub-xx: to fit with other repeating device types in inxi output, before Hub: was not numbered, but it struck me, it should be, like all the other auto-incremented counter line starters, like ID-xx:, Device-x:, and so on. 6. Reorganized the main help menu to hopefully be more logical, now it shows the primary output triggers, then after, the extra data items, -a, -x, -xx, -xxx, separated by white space per type to make it easier to read. This also moved the stuff that had been under the -x items back to where they should be, together with the main output control options. For readability and usability, I think this will help, the help menu is really long, so the more visual cues it has to make it clear what each section is, the better I think. Previously -a was the first items, then way further down was -x, -xx, and -xxx, then under those was -z, -Z, -y. |
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Bug Fixes!!! Continuing internal refactor!!
This bug report came in right after 3.2.00 went out live, but I would never have found it myself in testing so better found than not found! Bugs: 1. A bug was introduced to dmidecode data handlers in 3.2.00 resulted in the dmidecode data array basically eating itself up until errors appear. Quite difficult to trigger, but babydr from Slackware forums figured it out, using -F --dmidecode to force dmidecode use for all features that support it triggered thee bug always. This was a result of the refactor, previously inxi had worked on copies of referenced arrays, but in this case, it was working on the original array of arrays, subtle, but obvious. This method was only used on dmidecode arrays. 2. A second bug was exposed almost by accident, for -M --dmidecode data, there was a missing field and also a missing is set test on that field that led to an error of using undefined value in string comparison. This was strictly speaking 2 bugs, both very old, from 2.9 first rewrite, one failing to set/get the value, and the other failing to test if the value was set before using it. Fixes: 1. There were a few glitches in help menu and man page related to -L option, those are corrected. INTERNAL CODE CHANGES: 1. removed bug inducing splice use in some cases, and added parens to splice to make it fit the new way of with perl builtins, when taking 2 or more arguments, use parens. 2. Found many more instances to add -> dereferencing operator. I have to say, not doing that consistently made the code much harder to read, and created situations where it's somewhat ambiguous what item belongs to what, with everything consistently -> operator run, the code is more clear and obvious, and some of the hacks I'd added because of the lack of clarity were also removed. 3. Removed explicit setting of hash references with null value, that was done out of failure to use -> operators which clearly indicate to Perl and coder what is happening, so those crutches were removed. Also got rid of unnecessary array priming like: my @array = (); Some of these habits came from other languages, but in Perl, declaring my @array means it's an array that is null, and you don't need to do a further (). @array = () is obviously fine for resetting arrays in loops or whatever, but not in the initial declaration. |
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9503a0010e | recommends cleanup | ||
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359c92f14f | forgot to update recommends with lvs and mdadm | ||
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421e637465 | oops, forgot to add --logical to -L | ||
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1f7241ed6b | edits | ||
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021bb48600 | removed legacy comment | ||
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38757e73a6 | grammar | ||
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10c38ebca4 | typo | ||
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c7a2605a7c | fixed typo | ||
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61f5454c32 | cleanup | ||
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Huge upgrade, major rewrite/refactor, new features, everything is polished!!!
Note that due to large number of internal changes to code, a separate
INTERNAL CODE CHANGES section is at the bottom. Those are changes which in
general do not impact what users see that much, but which definitely impact
working on and with inxi! They also make errors less likely, and removed many
possible bad data error situations.
BUGS:
1. Obscure, but very old Tyan Mobo used a form of dmidecode data for RAM that I'd
never gotten a dataset for before, this tripped a series of errors in inxi, which
were actually caused by small errors and failures to check certain things, as
well as simply never assigning data in corner cases. This system used only dmi
handles 6 and 7, which is a very rare setup, from the very early days of dmi
data being settled, but it was valid data, and actually inxi was supposed to support
it, because I'd never gotten a dataset containing such legacy hardware data, the
support didn't work. There were actually several bugs discovered while tracking
this down, all were corrected.
2. Going along with the cpu fixes below, there was a bug that if stepping was 0,
stepping would not show. I had not realized stepping could be 0, so did a true/false
test instead of a defined test, which makes 0 in perl always test as false. This is
corrected.
3. While going through code, discovered that missing second argument to main::grabber
would have made glabel tool (BSD I think mostly) always fail, without exception.
That explains why bsd systems were never getting glabel data, heh.
4. Many null get_size tests would not have worked because they were testing
for null array but ('','') was actually being returned, which is not a null array.
The testing and results for get_size were quite random, now hey are all the same
and consistent, and confirmed correct.
5. In unmounted devices, the match sent to @lsblk to get extended device data
would never work with dm-xx type names, failed to translate them to their
mapped name, which is what is used in lsblk matches, this is corrected.
This could lead to failures to match fs of members of luks, raid, etc,
particularly noticeable with complex logical device structures. This means
the fallback filters against internal logic volume names, various file system
type matches, would always fail.
6. A small host of further bugs found and fixed during the major refactor, but
not all of them were noted, they were just fixed, sorry, those will be lost
to history unless you compare with diffs the two versions, but that's thousands
of lines, but there were more bugs fixed than listed above, just can't remember
them all.
FIXES:
1. There was some ambiguity about when inxi falls back to showing hardware graphics
driver instead of xorg gfx driver when it can't find an xorg driver. That can happen
for instance because of wayland, or because of obscure xorg drivers not yet supported.
Now the message is very clear, it says the gfx software driver is n/a, and that it's
showing the hardware gfx driver.
2. Big redo of cpu microarch, finally handled cases where same stepping/model ID
has two micorarches listed, now that is shown clearly to users, like AMD Zen family
17, model 18, which can be either Zen or Zen+, so now it shows that ambiguity, and
a comment: note: check, like it shows for ram report when it's not sure. Shows
for instance:
arch: Zen/Zen+ note: check
in such cases, in other words, it tells users that the naming convention
basically changed during the same hardware/die cycle.
3. There were some raid component errors in the unmounted tests which is supposed
to test the raid components and remove them from the mounted list. Note that inxi
now also tests better if something is a raid component, or an lvm component, or
various other things, so unmounted will be right more often now, though it's still
not perfect since there are still more unhandled logical storage components that
will show as unmounted when tney are parts of logical volumes. Bit by bit!!
4. Part of a significant android fine tuning and fix series, for -P, android uses
different default names for partitions, so none showed, now a subset of standard
android partitions, like /System, /firmware, etc, shows. Android will never work
well though because google keeps locking down key file read/search permissions in
/sys and /proc.
5. More ARM device detections, that got tuned quite a bit and cleaned up, for
instance, it was doing case sensitive checks, but found cases where the value
is all upper case, so it was missing it. Now it does case sensitive device type
searches.
6. One of the oldest glitches in inxi was the failure to take the size of the raid
arrays versus the size totals of the raid array components led to Local Storage
results that were uselessly wrong, being based on what is now called 'raw' disk
totals, that's the raw physical total of all system disks. Now if raid is detected
the old total: used:... is expanded to: total: raw:... usable:....used:, the usable
being the actual disk space that can be used to store data. Also in the case of
LVM systems, a further item is added, lvm-free: to report the unused but available
volume group space, that is, space not currently taken by logical volumes. This
can provide a useful overview of your system storage, and is much improved over
the previous version, which was technically unable to solve that issue because
the internal structures did not support it, now they do. LVM data requires sudo/
root unfortunately, so you will see different disk raw totals depending on
if it's root or not if there is LVM RAID running.
Sample: inxi -D
Drives: Local Storage: total: raw: 340.19 GiB usable: 276.38 GiB
lvm-free: 84.61 GiB used: 8.49 GiB (3.1%)
lvm-free is non assigned volume group size, that is, size not assigned
to a logical volume in the volume group, but available in the volume group.
raw: is the total of all detected block devices, usable is how much of that
can be used in file systems, that is, raid is > 1 devices, but those devices
are not available for storage, only the total of the raid volume is.
Note that if you are not using LVM, you will never see lvm-free:.
7. An anonymous user sent a dataset that contained a reasonable alternate
syntax for sensors output, that made inxi fail to get the sensors data. That was
prepending 'T' to temp items, and 'F' to fan items, which made enough sense though
I'd never seen it before, so inxi now supports that alternate sensors temp/fan
syntax, so that should expand the systems it supports by default out of the box.
8. Finally was able to resolve a long standing issue of loading File::Find, which
is only used in --debug 20-22 debugger, from top of inxi to require load in the
debugger. I'd tried to fix this before, but failed, the problem is that redhat
/fedora have broken apart Perl core modules, and made some of them into external
modules, which made inxi fail to start due to missing use of required module that
was not really required. Thanks to mrmazda for pointing this out to me, I'd tried
to get this working before but failed, but this time I figured out how to recode
some of the uses of File::Find so it would work when loaded without the package
debugger, hard to figure it, turned out a specific sub routine call in that
specific case required the parentheses that had been left off, very subtle.
9. Subtle issue, unlike most of the other device data processors, the USB
data parser did not use the remove duplicates tool, which led in some cases
to duplicated company names in the output for USB, which looks silly.
10. Somehow devtmpfs was not being detected in all cases to remove that from
partitions report, that was added to the file systen filters to make sure it
gets caught.
11. Removed LVM image/meta/data data slices from unmounted report, those are LVM
items, but they are internal LVM volumes, not available or usable. I believe
there are other data/meta type variants for different LVM features but I have
added as many types as I could find.. Also explictly now remove any _member type
item, which is always part of some other logical structure, like RAID or
LVM, those were not explicitly handled before.
12. Corrected the varous terms ZFS can use for spare drives, and due to how
those describe slightly different situations than simply spare, changed the spare
section header to Available, which is more accureate for ZFS.
ENHANCEMENTS:
1. Going along with FIX 2 is updating and adding to intel, elbrus microarch family/
model/stepping IDs (E8C2), so that is fairly up to date now.
2. Added in a very crude and highly unreliable default fallback for intel:
/sys/devices/cpu/caps/pmu_name which will show the basic internal name used
which can be quite different from what the actual microarch name is, but the hope
is that for new intel cpus that come out after these last inxi updates, something
may show, instead of nothing. Note these names are often much more generic, like
using skylake for many different microarches.
3. More android enhancements, for androids that allow reading of /system/build.prop,
which is a very useful informative system info file, more android data will show,
like the device name and variant, and a few other specialized items. You can see if
your android device lets inxi read build.prop if you see under -S Distro:
Android 7.1 (2016-07-23) or just Android. If it shows just android, that means
it can't read that file. Showing Android however is also new, since while inxi
can't always read build.prop if that file is there, it's android, so inxi
finally can recognize it's in android, even though it can't give much info if
it's locked down. Inxi in fact did not previously know it was running in android,
which is quite different from ARM systems in some ways, but now it does.
If the data is available, it will be used in Distro: and in Machine: data to add
more information about the android version and device.
4. A big one, for -p/-P/-o/-j now shows with -x the mapped device name, not just
the /dev/dm-xx ID, which makes connecting the various new bits easier, for RAID,
Logical reports. Note that /dev/mapper/ is removed from the mapped name since
that's redundant and verbose and makes the output harder to read. For mapped
devices, the new --logical / -L report lets you drill into the devices to find
out what dm-xx is actually based on, though that is a limited feature which only
supports drilling to a depth of 2 components/devices, there can be more,
particularly for bcache, luks setups, but it's just too hard to code that
level of depth, so something is better than nothing in this case, which
is the actual choice I was faced, the perfect in this case really is/was
the enemy of the good, as they say.
5. More big ones, for -a -p/-P/-o/-j shows kernel device major:minor number,
which again lets you trace each device around the system and report.
6. Added mdadm if root for mdraid report, that let me add a few other
details for mdraid not previously available. This added item 'state;'
to the mdraid report with right -x options.
7. Added vpu component type to ARM gfx device type detection, don't know
how video processing vcu had escaped my notice.
8. Added fio[a-z] block device, I'd never heard of that before, but saw
use of it in dataset, so learned it's real, but was never handled as a
valid block device type before, like sda, hda, vda, nvme, mmcblk,
etc. fio works the same, it's fio + [a-z] + [0-9]+ partition number.
9. Expanded to alternate syntax Elbrus cpu L1, L2, L3 reporting. Note
that in their nomenclature, L0 and L1 are actually both L1, so add those
together when detected.
10. RAM, thanks to a Mint user, antikythera, learned, and handled something
new, module 'speed:' vs module 'configured clock speed:'.
To quote from supermicro:
<<<
Question: Under dmidecode, my 'Configured Clock Speed' is lower than my
'Speed'. What does each term mean and why are they not the same?
Answer: Under dmidecode, Speed is the expected speed of the memory
(what is advertised on the memory spec sheet) and Configured Clock Speed
is what the actual speed is now. The cause could be many things but the
main possibilities are mismatching memory and using a CPU that doesn't
support your expected memory clock speed.
Please use only one type of memory and make sure that your CPU supports
your memory.
>>>
11. Since RAM was gettng a look, also changed cases where ddr ram speed is reported
in MHz, now it will show the speeds as: [speed * 2] MT/S ([speed] MHz). This
will let users make apples to apples speed comparisons between different systems.
Since MT/S is largely standard now, there's no need to translate that to MHz.
12. And, even more!! When RAM speeds are logically absurd, adds in note: check
This is from a real user's data by the way, as you can see, it triggers all
the new RAM per Device report features.
Sample:
Memory:
RAM: total: 31.38 GiB used: 20.65 GiB (65.8%)
Array-1: capacity: N/A slots: 4 note: check EC: N/A
Device-1: DIMM_A1 size: 8 GiB speed: 1600 MT/s (800 MHz)
Device-2: DIMM_A2 size: 8 GiB speed: spec: 1600 MT/s (800 MHz)
actual: 61910 MT/s (30955 MHz) note: check
Device-3: DIMM_B1 size: 8 GiB speed: 1600 MT/s (800 MHz)
Device-4: DIMM_B2 size: 8 GiB speed: spec: 1600 MT/s (800 MHz)
actual: 2 MT/s (1 MHz) note: check
13. More disks vendor!!! More disk vendor IDs!!! Yes, that's right, eternity
exists, here, now, and manifests every day!! Thanks to linux-lite hardware
database for this eternally generating list. Never underestimate the
creativity of mankind to make more disk drive companies, and to release
new model IDs for existing companies. Yes, I feel that this is a metaphore
for something much larger, but what that is, I'm not entirely clear about.
CHANGES:
1. Recent kernel changes have added a lot more sensor data in /sys, although
this varies system to system, but now, if your system supports it, you can
get at least partial hdd temp reports without needing hddtemp or root. Early
results suggest that nvme may have better support than spinning disks, but it
really varies. inxi will now look for the /sys based temp first, then fall
back to the much slower and root / sudo only hddtemp. You can force hddtemp
always with --hddtemp option, which has a corresponding configuration item.
2. The long requested and awaited yet arcane and obscure feature -L/--logical,
which tries to give a reasonably good report on LVM, LUKS, VeraCrypt, as well
as handling LVM raid, both regular and thin, is now working, more or less.
This took a lot of testing and will probably not be reasonably complete for
a while, mainly because the levels of abstraction possible between lvm,
lvm raid, mdraid, LUKS, bcache, and other caching and other encryption
options are just too deep to allow for easy handling, or easy outputs.
But a very solid and good start in my view, going from nothing to something
is always a big improvement!! LVM reports require root/sudo. This will,
finally, close issue #135.
3. Going along with -L, and serving as a model for the logic of -L, was the
complete refactor of -R, RAID, which was a real mess internally, definitely
one of the messiest and hardest to work with features of inxi before the
refactor. It's now completely cleaned up and modularized, and is easy to add
raid types, which was not possible before, now it cleanly supports zfs, mdraid,
and lvm raid, with in depth reports and added items like mdraid size, raid
component device sizes and maj:min numbers if the -a option is used. Note
that LVM RAID requires root/sudo.
4. Added some more sensors dimm, volts items, slight expansion. Note that the
possible expansion of sensors made possible by the recently upgraded sensors
output logic, as well as the new inxi internal sensors data structure,
which is far more granular than the previous version, and allows for much
more fine grained control and output, though only gpu data currently takes
advantage of this new power under the covers, although as noted, the /sys based
hdd temps use the same source, only straight from /sys, since it was actually
easier using the data directly from sys than trying to map the drive locations to
specific drives in sensors output. Well, to be accurate, since now only
board type sensors are used for the temp/fan speed, voltage, etc, reports,
the removal of entire sensor groups means less chance of wrong results.
5. To bring the ancient RAID logic to fit the rest of inxi style, made
zfs, mdraid, and lvm raid components use incrementing numbers, like cpu
cores does. This got rid of the kind of ugly hacks used previously
which were not the same for zfs or mdraid, but now they are all the same,
except that the numbers for mdraid are the actual device numbers that
mdraid supplies, and the LVM and ZFS numbers are just autoincremented,
starting at 1.
6. Changed message <root/superuser required> to <superuser required> because
it's shorter and communicates the same thing.
INTERNAL CODE CHANGES:
1. Small, transparent test, tested on Perl 5.032 for Perl 7 compatibility. All
tests passed, no legacy code issues in inxi as of now.
2. Although most users won't notice, a big chunk of inxi was refactored
internally, which is why the new -L, the revamped -R, and the fixed
disk totals finally all can work now. This may hopefully result in more
consistent output and fewer oddities and randomnesses, since more of the
methods all use the same tools now under the covers. Ths refactor also
significantly improved inxi's execution speed, by about 4-5%, but most
of those gains are not visible due to the added new features, but the
end result is new inxi runs roughly the same speed as pre 3.2.00 inxi, but
does more, and does it better, internally at least. If you have a very
good eye you may also note a few places where this manifests externally
as well. Last I checked about 10-12% of the lines of inxi had been changed,
but I think that number is higher now. Everything that could be optimized
was, everything could be made more efficient was.
3. Several core tools in inxi were expanded to work much more cleanly,
like reader(), which now supports returning just the index value you want,
that always happened on the caller end before, which led to extra code.
get_size likewise was expanded to do a string return, which let me
remove a lot of internal redundant code in creating the size unit output,
like 32 MiB. uniq() was also redone to work exclusively by reference.
4. Many bad reference and dereference practices that had slipped into inxi
from the start are mostly corrected now, array assignments use push now,
rather than assign to array, then add array to another array, and assign
those to the master array. Several unnecessary and cpu/ram intensive copying
steps, that is, were removed in many locations internally in inxi. Also
now inxi uses more direct anonymous array and hash refernce assignments,
which again removes redundant array/hash creation, copy, and assignment.
5. Also added explicit -> dereferencing arrows to make the code more clear
and readable, and to make it easier for perl to know what is happening.
The lack of consistency actually created confusion, I was not aware of
what certain code was doing, and didn't realize it was doing the same
thing as other code because of using different methods and syntaxes for
referencing array/hash components. I probably missed some, but I got many
of them, most probably.
6. Instituted a new perl builtin sub routine rule which is: if the sub
takes 2 or more arguments, always put in parentheses, it makes the
code much easier to follow because you see the closing ), like:
push(@rows,@row); Most perl builtins that take only one arg do not
use parentheses, except length, which just looks weird when used in
math tests, that is: length($var) > 13 looks better than length $var > 13.
This resolved inconsistent uses that had grown over time, so now all the
main builtins follow these rules consistently internally.
Due to certain style elements, and the time required to carefully go through
all these rules, grep and map do not yet consistently use these rules, that's
because the tendency has been to use the grep {..test..} @array and
map {...actions...} @array
7. Mainly to deal with android failures to read standard system files due to
google locking it down, moved most file queries to use -r, is readable, rather
than -e, exists, or -f, is file, unless it only needs to know if it exists,
of course. This fixed many null data errors in android even on locked androids.
8. Added in %mapper and %dmmapper hashes to allow for easy mapping and
unmapping of mapped block devices. Got rid of other ways of doing that,
and made it consistent throughout inxi. These are globals that load once.
9. Learned that perl builtin split() has a very strange and in my view originally
terrible decision that involves treating as regex rules string characters in split
string, like split('^^',$string), which should logically be a string value, not
a ^ start search followed by a ^, but that's how it is, so that was carefully checked
and made consistent as well. Also expanded split to take advantage of the number of
splits to do, which I had only used occasionally before, but only updated field/value
splits where I have a good idea of what the data is. This is very useful when the
data is in the form of field: value, but value can contain : as well. You have to
be very careful however, since some data we do want in fact the 2nd split, but not
the subsequent ones, so I only updated the ones I was very sure about.
10. Going along with the cpu microarch fixes, updated and cleaned up all the lists
of model/stepping matches, now they are all in order and much easier to scan and
find, that had gotten sloppy over the years.
11. More ARM, moved dummy and codec device values into their own storage arrays,
that let me remove the filters against those in the other detections. Makes logic
easier to read and maintain as well.
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Bug fixes, new features!! Update now!! Or don't, it's up to you.
Bugs:
1. Let's call some of the android fixes and debugger failures bugs, why not?
Those are fixed. Note that many of these fixes will impact any system that is
ARM based, not just android.
Fixes:
1. Related to issue #226 which was a fine issue, fine tuned the debugger debuggers
to allow for smoother handling of /sys parse failures. Also added debugger filters
for common items that would make the /sys parser hang, oddly, most seem to be in
/sys/power for android devices.
2. Added some finetunings for possible mmcblk storage paths, in some cases, an
extra /block is added, which made inxi think mounted drives were unmounted. I've
never seen this extra /block except on mmcblk devices on android, but you never
know, it could be more widespread.
3. Also mainly related to android, but maybe other ARM devices, in some cases,
an errant 'timer' device was appearing as a cpu variant, which is wrong. That was
a corner case for sure, and part of the variant logic in fact uses timer values
to assign the actual cpu variants, but it was wrong in this case because it was
....-timer-mem, not ...-timer, which led to non-existent CPU variants showing.
4. Issue #236 by ChrisCheney pointed out that inxi had never updated its default
/proc/meminfo value to use the newer MemAvailable as default if present, which led
to incorrect memory used values showing up. That's because back in the old days,
we had to construct a synthetic Memory used from MemFree, buffers, cache, etc, but that
wasn't always right, since sometimes the cache actually isn't available, often is,
but not always.
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Bug fixes, updates!!! Yes!! Why wait!!! Can't stay frozen forever!
Bugs: 1. Not an inxi bug, but a weird change in defaults for ubuntu GNOME ENV variable values when running at least the gnome desktop, result to end users appears to be a bug. This resolves issue #228 Note that so much weird non desktop data was put into those environmental variables that inxi simply could make no sense of it. The fix was to make the detections more robust, using regex instead of string compare, as well as to at least try to strip out such corrupted data values, though that can never be fully predictable. As far as I know, this issue only hits ubuntu gnome desktops, I've never seen these value corruptions on any other distro, or on any other ubuntu desktop, though they may be there, but I'm not going to test all the ubuntu spins to find out. I'm hoping the combination of logic fixes and junk data cleaning will handle most future instances of these types of corruptions automatically. Again, this only happens on relatively laste ubuntu gnomes as far as I know. Fixes: 1. An oversight, added sshd to list of whitelisted start clients. This permits expected output for: ssh <name@server> inxi -bay that is, running inxi as an ssh command string. Should have done that a while ago, but better late than never. This corrects issue #227, or at least, has a better default, it worked fine before, but required using --tty to reset to default terminal behavior. The problem is that if inxi can't determine what it's running in, it defaults to thinking it's in an IRC client, and switches to IRC color codes, among other changes. But it was nice to get sshd covered automatically so users don't have to know the --tty option. Changes: 1. More disk vendors and vendor IDs!!! Yes, that's right, the list never ends!! |
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Bug fixes, feature updates, changes!!
Bugs: 1. There was a glitch in the pattern that made -D samsung / seagate not ID right, fixed. 2. I do not like calling this a bug, because it's not an inxi bug, it's an upstream regression in the syntax used in /proc/version, they changed a fully predictable gcc version .... to a random series of embedded/nested parentheses and other random junk. inxi tries to deal with this regression, which will be perceived as a bug in systems running kernel 5.8 or newer and inxi 3.1.06 or older, since it will fail to show the kernel build compiler version since it can't find it in the string. I really dislike these types of regressions caused by bad ideas done badly and without any thought to the transmitted knowledge base, but that's how it goes, no discipline, I miss the graybeards, who cared about things like this. Fixes: 1. more -D nvme id changes, intel in this case. 2. FreeBSD lsusb changed syntax, which triggered a series of errors when run. Since I never really got the required data [hint bsd users, do NOT file issues that you want fixed and then not provide all the data required, otherwise, really, why did you file the issue? did you expect magic pixies to fly in with the required data?] See the README.txt for what to do to get issues really handed in BSDs. tldr; version: if you won't spend the time providing data and access required, I won't spend the time on the issue, period, since if you don't care enough to do those simple steps, why on earth do you expect me to? Changes: 1. -C 'boost' option changed from -xxx feature to -x feature. Consider it a promotion! 2. Added --dbg 19 switch to enable smart data debugging for -Da. 3. Some new tools to handle impossible data values for some -D situations for SMART where the smart report contains gibberish values, that was issue #225 -- tools were convert_hex and is_Hex. The utility for these is limited, but might be of use in some cases, like handling the above gibberish data value. |
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New features, new changes, new bug fixes!!! Excitement!!! Thrills!!!
Bugs: 1. Forgot to set get Shell logic in inxi short form, oops, so Shell remained blank, only inxi short, which I rarely use so I didn't notice. 2. Failed to test pacman-g2 for packages, had wrong query argument, so it failed. Also failed to test for null data, so showed errors for packages as well. Both fixed. 3. A big bug, subtle, and also at the same time, an enhancement, it turns out NVME drives do NOT follow the age old /proc/partitions logic where if the minor number is divisible by 16 or has remainder 8 when divided by 16, it's a primary drive, not a partition. nvme drives use a random numbering when > 1 nvme drives are present, and the old tests would fail for all nvme drivers more than the first one, which led to wrong disk size totals. Thanks gardotd426 who took the time to help figure this out in issue #223 - fix is to not do that test for nvme drives, or rather, to add a last fail test for nvme primary nvme[0-9]n[0-9] drive detections, not the minor number. Fixes: 1. Corrected indentation for block sizes, children were not indented. 2. Updated some older inxi-perl/docs pages, why not, once in a while? 3. Kernel 5.8 introduces a changed syntax to gcc string location, this has been corrected, and the kernel gcc version now shows correctly for the previous syntax and the new one. Hopefully they do not change it again, sigh... 4. Removed string 'hwmon' sensors from gpu, those are not gpu sensors, and are also usually not board/cpu sensors, but things like ath10, iwl, etc, network, or disk sensors, etc. In some cases hwmon sensor data would appear Enhancements: 1. Big sensors refactor, now inxi supports two new sensors options: --sensors-exclude - which allows you to exclude any primary sensor type[s]. Note that in the refactored logic, and in the old logic, gpu sensors were already excluded. Now other hardware specific sensors like network are excluded as well. --sensors-use - use ONLY list of supplied sensor IDs, which have to match the syntax you see in lm-sensors sensors output. Both accept comma separated list of sensors, 1 or more, no spaces. The refactor however is more far reaching, now inxi stores and structures data not as a long line of sensors and data without differentiation, but by sensor array/chip ID, which is how the exclude and use features can work, and how granular default hardware sensor exclusions and uses can happen. This is now working in the gpu sensors, and will in the future be extended to the newer 5.7/5.8 kernel disk temperature sensors values, which will lead in some cases to being able to get sensors data for disks without root or hddtemp. This is a complicated bit of logic, and I don't have time to do it right now, but the data is now there and stored and possible to use in the future. To see sensors structures, use: inxi -s --dbg 18 and that will show the sensors data and its structures, which makes debugger a lot easier for new features. This issue was originally generated by what was in my view an invalid complaint about some inxi sensors defaults, which led me to look more closely at sensors logic, which is severely lacking. More work on sensors will happen in the future, time, health, and energy permitting. 2. Added Watts, mem temp, for amdgpu sensors, as -sxxx option. More gpu sensor data will be added as new data samples show what will be available for the free modules like amdgpu, nouvean, and the intel graphics modules. 3. More disk vendors and IDs, as noted, the list never ends, and it hasn't ended, so statement remains true. Thanks linux-lite hardware database. Changes: 1. This has always bugged me since it was introduced, the primary cpu line starter Topology: which was only technically accurate for its direct value, not its children, and also, in -b, cpu short form was using the value as the key, which is a no-no, I'd been meaning to fix that too, but finally realized if I just make the primary CPU line key be 'Info:', which is short, yet non-ambiguous, it would solve both problems. To keep the -b cpu line as short as before, I removed the 'type:' and integraged that value into the primary Info: string: CPU: Info: 6-Core AMD Ryzen 5 2600 [MT MCP] speed: 2750 MHz min/max: 1550/3400 MHz -b 3.1.05 and earlier: CPU: 6-Core: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 type: MT MCP speed: 1515 MHz min/max: 1550/3400 MHz These resolve something that has irked me for quite a while, 'Topology:' didn't fit, it was too geeky, and worst, it only applied to the value directly following it, NOT to the rest of the CPU information. It also could not be shortened or abbreviated since then it would have made no actual sense, like topo:, and the same issue with value being used for key in -b, and wrong word for line starter in -C would have existed. Besides, someone might think I was trying to make a subtle reference to the great Jodorowsky film 'El Topo', which would be silly, because that's art, and this is just some system specs that are reasonably readable... 2. Was using opendns for WAN dig IP address, but apparently cysco bought that company, and now I've noticed the old opendns dig queries were failing more and more, so replaced that with akamai dig requests. Also made the WAN IP fallback to HTTP IP method if dig failed. New option: --no-http-wan and config item NO_HTTP_WAN with override --http-wan added to let you switch off http wan IP requests if you want. Note that if dig fails, you will get no wan ip address. Updated/improved error messages to handle this more complex set of wan ip options, so hopefully the error alert message will in most cases be right. 3. To future proof inxi, switched debugger upload location to ftp.smxi.org/incoming from the old techpatterns.com/incoming. Updated man/help to remove those urls too. |
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so shell is blank, second, unhandled new 5.8 kernel /proc/version syntax. Normally I'd do a new numbered release, but I want these out asap and will do a full new release later, there are some features under development in pinxi for sensors that will take some time to handle. |
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Bug fixes!!! New Features!! Why wait!!!
Bugs: 1. Issue #220 on github: inxi misidentified XFCE as Gnome. This was a kind of core issue, and pointed to some logic that needed updating, and some inadequate assumptions made, and some too loose cascade of tests. Hopefully now xfce will almost never get misidentified, and the other primary desktops ID'ed either from $ENV or from xrop -root will be slightly more accurately identified as well. Note that this fix creates a possibility for obscure misconfigured desktops to be ID'ed wrong, but in this case, that will be technically a bug for them, but with the new fixes, that situation will be cleaner to handle internally in the desktop ID logic. Also tightened the final Gnome fallback detection to not trigger a possible false positive, it was testing for ^_GNOME but that is not adequate, because some gnome programs will trigger these values in xprop -root even if GNOME is not running. Should be safer now, hopefully no new bugs will be triggered by these changes. Fixes: 1. Missed an indentation level for -y1, gcc alt should have been indented in one more level, now it is. 2. In disk vendors/family, didn't clean items starting with '/', this is now corrected. Yes, some do, don't ask me why. Might be cases like: Crucial/Micron maybe, where the first ID is grabbed, not sure. Enhancements: 1. New Disk vendors, vendor IDs!!! The list never ends!!! We've finally found infinity, and it is the unceasing wave of tiny and not so tiny disks and their Ids. 2. New feature: for -Aa, -Na/-na/-ia, -Ga, now will add the modules the kernel could support if they were available on the Device-x lines of those items. This was made an -a option because it really makes no sense, if it's a regular option, users might think that for example an nvidia card had a nouveua driver when it didn't, when in fact, all the kernel is saying is that it knows those listed modules 'couid' be used or present. This corresponds to the Display: item in -Ga, that lists 'alternate:' drivers that Xorg knows about that could likewise be used, if they were on the system. In other words these are --admin options because otherwise users might get confused, so this is one where you want to know the man explanation before you ask for it. It is useful however if you're not sure what your choices are for kernel modules. When the alternate driver is the same as the active driver, or if none is found, it does not show the alternate: item to avoid spamming. |
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New version, new man, huge update, bug fixes, cleanups, updates!!
What started as a relatively minor issue report ended up with a refactor of big chunks of some of the oldest code and logic in inxi. So many bugs and fixes, updates, and enhancements, that I will probably miss some when I try to list them. Bugs: 1. In the process of fixing an issue about sudo use triggering server admin emails on failure, when --sudo/--no-sudo and their respective configuration items were added, sudo was inadvertently disabled because the test ran before the options were processed, which meant the condition to set sudo data was always false, so sudo for internal use was never set. The solution was to set a flag in the option handler and set sudo after options or configs run. 2. Issue #219 reported gentoo and one other repo type would fail to show enabled repos, and would show an error as well, this was due to forgetting to make the match test case insensitive. If only all bugs were this easy to fix!! 3. I'd seen this bug before, and couldn't figure out why it existed. It turned out that the partition blacklist filters were running fine in the main partition data tool, but I had forgotten to add in corresponding lsblk partition data filters, lol, so when the logic went back and double checked for missing partitions [this feature had been if i remember right to be able to show hidden partitions, which the standard method didn't see, but lsblk did, anyway, when the double check and add missing partitions logic ran, inxi was putting back in the blacklisted partitions every time, despite the original blacklists working well and as intended. This was fixed by adding in all the required fs type blacklists, then adding in comments above each black list reminding coders that if they add or remove from one blacklist, they have to do the same on the other. 4. Found while testing something unrelated on older vm, the fallback case for cpu bugs, which was supposed to show the basic /proc/cpuinfo cpu bugs, was failing inexplicably because the data was simply being put into the wrong variable name, sigh. Fixes: 1. While not technically an inxi bug, it would certainly appear that way to anyone who triggered it. We'd gotten issue reports before on this, but they were never complete, so couldn't figure it out. Basically, if someone puts inxi into a simple script that is $PATH [this was the missing fact needed to actually trigger this bug in order to fix it], the script [not inxi], will then enter into an endless loop as inxi queries it for its version number using <script name> --version. This issue didn't happen if the script calling inxi was not in PATH, which is why I'd never been able to figure it out before. Only simple scripts with no argument handlers could trigger this scenario, and only if they were in PATH. Fixing this required refactoring the entire start get_shell_data logic, which ended up with a full refactor of the program_version logic as well. The fix was to expand the list of shells known by inxi so it would be able to recognize when it was in a shell running a script running inxi. This resulted in several real improvements, for instance, inxi will now almost always be able to determine the actual shell running inxi, even when started by something else. It will also never use --version attempts on programs it does not know about in a whitelist. So we lose slightly the abilty to get version data on unknown shells, but we gain inxi never being able to trigger such an infinite loop situation. 2. As part of the program_version refactor, a long standing failure to get ksh, lksh, loksh, pdksh, and the related posh shells, all of which ID their version numbers only if they are running the command in themselves. The mistake had been having the default shell run that command. These all now correctly identify themselves. 3. As part of the wm upgrades, many small failures to ID version numbers, or even wm's, in some cases, were discovered when testing, and corrected. Some I had not tested, like qtile, and the lisp variants, were not being detected correctly by the tests due to the way python or lisp items are listed in ps aux. 4. As part of the wm update and program_version refactor, updated and simplified many desktop and wm detections and logic blocks. Ideally this makes them more preditable and easy to work on for the future. 5. As some last tunings for the new -y1 key: value pair per line output option, fixed some small glitches in -b indentation. Also improved RAID indenting, and Weather, and made it all very clean and predictable in terms of indentations. 6. Something I'd slightly noticed but never done anything about, while testing desktop fixes, I realized that for Desktop: item, dm: is a secondary data type, but if it's Console:, then DM: is a primary data type, not a secondary one. So now if Console: it becomes DM: whic makes sense, previously it implied a dm: was used to start the console, which was silly. Also, since often the reason it's Console: with no dm in the first place is that it's a server with no dm. So now if console, and no dm detected, rather than showing DM: N/A it just doesn't show dm at all. 7. As part of the overall core refactor, the print_data logic was also refactored and simplified, by making -y1 a first class citizen, it led to significantly different way of being able to present inxi data on your screen, and now print_data logic is cleaner and reflects these changes more natively, all the initial hacks to get this working were removed, and the logic was made to be core, not tacked on. 8. A small thing also revealed in issue #219, battery data was not being trimmed, not sure how I missed that, but in some cases, space padding was in the values and was not removed, which leads to silly looking inxi output. 9. Several massive internal optimizations, which were tested heavily, led to in one case, 8-900x faster execution the second time a data structure is used, previously in program_values the entire list was loaded each time program_values was called, now it's loaded into a variable on first load and the variable is used for the tests after that. This was also done for the vendor_version for disk vendors, which also features a very long data structure which can be loaded > 1 times for instances where a system has > 1 disk. I also tested while I was at it, to see if loading these tyeps of data structures, arrays of arrays, or hashes of arrays, by reference, or by dereferencing their arrays, was faster, and it proved that it's about 20% faster to not dereference them, but to use them directly. So I've switched a number of the fixed data structures internally do use that method. Another tiny optimization was hard resetting the print_data iterator hash, while this would never matter in the real world, it showed that resetting the iterator hash manually was slightly more efficient than resetting it with a for loop. 10. While not seen inside inxi, I updated and improved a number of the vm's used to test inxi and various software detections, so now I have a good selection, going back to 2008 or so, up to current. This is helpful because things like shells and window managers and desktops come and go, so it is hard to test old detections on new stuff when you can't install those anymore. You'll see these fixes in many of the less well known window managers, and in a few of the better known ones, where in some cases the detections were damaged. 11. As part of the program_version refactor, updated and fixed file based version detections, those, ideally, will almost never be used. Hopefully programmers of things like window managers, shells, and desktops, can learn how to handle --version requests, even though I realize that's a lot harder than copying someone's code and then rebranding as your own project, or whatever excuse people have for not including a --version item in their softaware. Enhancements: 1. As a result of the shell, start shell, shell parent refactors, inxi was able to correctly in most cases deetermine also the user default shell and its verison, so that was added as an -Ixxx option: Shell: ksh v: A_2020.0.0 default: Bash v: 5.0.16 2. As part of the program_version refactor, a more robust version number cleaner was made, which now allows for much more manipulation of the version number string, which sometimes contains, without spaces, non version number ' info right before the actual version. 3. Many more wm IDs were created and tested, and some old virtual machines that were used years ago were used again to test old window managers and their IDs, as well as new vms created to test newer ones. Many version IDs and WM ids were fixed in this process as well. All kinds of new ones added, though the list is basiclaly endless so ideally inxi would only use its internal data tables for window managers that have actual users, or did. 4. First wayland datatype, now it may show Display ID: with -Ga, so far that's the only wayland screen/display data I can get reliably. 5. As part of the shell parent/started in: updates and fixes, added every shell I could find, and installed and tested as many of them as possible to verify that either they have no version method, or that their version method works. This shell logic also is used to determine start parent. Obviously using whitelists of things that can change over time isn't ideal, but there was no way to actually do it otherwise. The best part of the fixes is that it's now remarkably difficult to trick inxi into reporting the wrong shell, and it generally will also get the default shell right, though I found cases in testing where a shell when started replaces the value in $SHELL with itself. 6. I found a much faster and reasonably reliable way to determine toolkits used by gtk desktops, like cinnamon, gnome, and a few others. Test is to get version from gtk-launcher, which is MUCH faster than doing a package version query on the random libgtk toolkit that might be tested, and actually was tested for pacman, apt, and rpm in the old days, but that was removed because it was a silly hack. It's possible that now and then gtk desktops will be 0.0.1 versions off, but in most cases, the version matched, so I decided to restore the tk: item for a selection of gtk or gnome based desktops. So now gtk desktops, except mate, which of course will be using gtk 2 for a while longer, toolkit version should be working again, and the new method works on everything, unlike the old nasty hack that was used, which required package queries and guessing at which gtk lib was actually running the desktop, it was such a slow nasty hack that it was dumped a while ago, but this new method works reliably in most cases and solves most of the issues. 7. As part of the overall program_versions refactor, the package version tester tool was extended to support pacman, dpkg, and rpm, which in practical terms covers most gnu/linux users and systems. Since this feature is literally only used for ASH and DASH shell version detections, it was really just added as a proof of concept, and because it fit in well with the new Package counts feature of -I/-r. 8. Updated for version info a few other programs, added compositors as well. 9. Last but not least!! More disk vendor IDs, more disk vendors!! And found another source to double check vendor IDs, that's good. New Features: 1. For -Ix/-rx, -Ixx/-rxx, -Ia/-ra, now inxi shows package counts for most package managers plus snap, flatpak, and appimage. I didn't test appimage so I'm not 100% sure that works, but the others are all tested and work. If -r, Packages shows in the Repos item as first row, which makes sense, packages, repos, fits. Note that in some systems getting full package counts takes some time so it's an -x option not default. If -rx, -rxx, -ra, package info moved to -r section, and if -Ix, -Ixx, or -Ia, the following data shows: * -Ix or -rx: show total package counts: Packages: 2429 * -Ixx or -rxx: shows Packages then counts by package manager located. If there was only one package manager with packages, the total moves from right after Packages: to the package manager, like: Packages: apt: 3241 but if there were for example 2 or more found, it would show the total then: Packages 3245 apt:3241 snap: 4 * -Ia or -ra: adds package managers with 0 packages managed, those are not show with -xx, and also shows how many of those packages per package manager is a library type lib file. Sample: inxi -Iay1 Info: Processes: 470 Uptime: 8d 10h 42m Memory: 31.38 GiB used: 14.43 GiB (46.0%) Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 5/6/7/8/9 Packages: apt: 3685 lib: 2098 rpm: 0 Shell: Elvish v: 0.13.1+ds1-1 default: Bash v: 5.0.16 running in: kate pinxi: 3.1.04-1 |
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e7f7110e6c |
Fixed a bug with repos, failed to do case insensitive test, which
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166c1364d2 |
Big internal refactor!! Fully adjustable indentation logic, built in, native!
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
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46ae081ec6 |
Big change, cleanup, small bug fixes. Hot, grab it now!!
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.
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e51ada6bfe | forgot a help item | ||
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ea2c06f1db | fixed copyright year | ||
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7ca58b94d2 |
New inxi, man. New information types, fixes, man updates.
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. |
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383aa21b0d | forgot to consistently use partition/slice for help. | ||
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05063841f3 | help menu typo | ||
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2329d54318 | small man fix, had wrong copyright date | ||
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c06a034c98 | man page fixes, lintian stuff. | ||
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70d13aca4e |
New inxi, new man. Huge update, new line types, huge graphics upgrade, new
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] |