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New version! Fixes!! Bug fixes! More bug fixes!! Cleanups!
Most of these were exposed by issue #251 filed by LukasNickel, then further revealed via his debugger data set, which showed two more bugs. Well, bugs, changed syntaxes, same difference to end users. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KNOWN ISSUES: 1. Work is ongoing to add btrfs support to -R (similar to softraid or zfs), basic stubs and debuggers added, but reporting tools are not as robust (and often require sudo/root for reasons that escape me) as I would have hoped, so it's slow. One of these days... Normally would not release with working stubs, but there were enough real issues/bugs to warrant just getting 3.3.06 out the door, then going on with the btrfs feature for -R. But so far I view the reporting tools as inadequate, unfortunately. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUGS: 1. As initially discovered in issue #251 there are alternate syntaxes which had never been seen before for remote mounts, fuse mounts, etc. In this case, it was fuse.sshfs that was not removed from the Disk total:... used: leading to silly 1000+% used percentage. Note that while technically inxi could try to be clever about reporting impossible percentages, so far those have led to bugs getting reported, then fixed, so I think it worth leaving it as is. 2. When --swap/-j is used with no other arguments, failed to show uuid or label. Discovered this while testing fix 2. 3. Bug which is not a bug but will appear as such to users, nvme temps were failing in -Dx due to a change in how those values are located in /sys. See fix 3. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIXES: 1. Going along with Bug 1, and considering that only in 3.3.05 was the nfs4 remote fs failure to identify/exclude, the entire section involving remote/ fuse etc file systems was refactored, and extended to add many more previously non-handled remote and fuse type file systems. Significant extension of known remote filesystem types, distributed file systems, overlay file systems, all to try to avoid having more distributed/remote/fuse file system issues. Also added test to support fuse. or fuseblk. type prefixes for any of these. Hopefully there will be fewer issues related to distributed and remote and overlay type file systems in the future. 2. Made all label/uuid triggers global, that is, -ol shows unmounted with labels, -ju shows swap with uuid, and so on. This may require a bit more tweaks to get exactly right, but in general, this is a purely cosmetic fix, that is, try not to show label/uuid for partition/mounts that probably can't have those values. 3. There was a change in the way nvme /sys temperature paths were handled, an actually understandable, albeit as always annoying, one, because inxi actually had to do a sort of convoluted hack to get the nvme block devices temperatore paths before, now that hack is not required for newer kernels (5.12+), though for kernels that had the old paths (5,8, 5.9 at least, don't know when paths changed) left in the old method. Now tests are more granular, and inxi should find temperatures regardless of which method is used for nvme and sd type drives. 4. Another somewhat irksome random change, again, understandable since the new syntax is more consistent in output than the previous one, but still breaks all existing parsers that use the changed field names. Lsblk did NOT change the -o input field names, but DID change the output field names, which broke the internal inxi parser, and led to null lsblk data. Changes were - or : separators in input values are output as _ always. that is, MAJ:MIN becomes MAJ_MIN. Also corrected the debugger lsblk to use the same output fields for -P -o as the actual lsblk parser uses internally so these failures can be spotted more readily, as it was, it was literally only because someone submitted the debugger dataset, and was running lsblk 2.37, where I believe this behavior change happened. Solution was to just use regex patterns instead, [:_-], in the parser. Big fear now is that they will randomly stop supporting the -o input field names that contain - or : and change that too without any real warning or deprecation notice. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENHANCEMENTS: 1. Going with bug and fix 1, added avfs, afs, archivemount, avfs, ceph, gfs, glusterfs, gmailfs, hdfs, ipfs, kosmos/kfs, lafs, mergerfs, mhddfs, moosefs, ocfs, openafs, orangefs, overlayfs, pvfs, s3fs, sheepdog, vmfs, and several others to the exclude list for disk used and show label/uuids for partitions. 2. A smattering of disk vendors added. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES: 1. Going with fix 2, -l and -u no longer will trigger -P by default, now if -l or -u are used without -j, -o, -p, -P, an error will explain that you must use one of those together with -l or -u. This was the only way to get the -l and -u switches to turn off/on label/uuid reports in swap, unmounted, and partitions consistently. Triggering -P was really a legacy behavior from when the only options were -p or -P, and --swap and --unmounted did not exist. I found it increasingly odd that unmounted would show label/uuid always but partitions only with -l/-u. 2. This was a pet peeve, sometimes field names just bug me (like 'Topology: did for CPU, now corrected to Info:), the Drive: rotation: was one such annoyance. I had recycled that to indicate SSD, which was a feature request, but that was always a sloppy solution, and made no sense, since SSD isn't a rotation speed. Now it reports a much more logical: ID-1:...... type: HDD rpm: 7200 or ID-1:...... type: SSD or ID-1:...... type: N/A This also corresponds to the intended meaning much better. The HDD type was always present internally if rotation speed is detected, but was not used. Now will also show type: N/A if reliable type detection failed, which will also be more consistent. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENTATION: 1. Brought most of inxi.changelog (this file) into a consistent state, re whitespaces, readability, consistent use of various header / section names. Ideally while I don't expect anyone to ever sit down and read this changelog, it will be now much easier to scan to find whatever interests you. This change goes along with ongoing changes in docs to in general try to be usually 80 columns wide. 2. inxi-resources.txt, inxi-data.txt are updated with more raid, partition, file system values and data to go along with bug, fix, enhancement 1. 3. Man and help updated to indicate -u and -l no longer trigger -P by default. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CODE: 1. Ongoing refactors, bringing the codebase to the point that matches current coding styles. Removed remainder of whitespaces in conditions and for/while loops, for example: if ( condition ) { becomes: if (condition){ and if ( ( test set 1 ) && ( test set 2 ) ) { becomes: if ((test set 1) && (test set 2)){ and so on. That dropped over 2 KiB of whitespaces. This went along with fixes that have been ongoing to change to this whitespace use style, but previously it was only being done when that situation was hit in a local block, now it's been completed globally. This continues the style refactor that has been ongoing for a while now, to bring inxi into a consistent state, since when it started, it was more pressing to get the bash/gawk mess translated to Perl than it was to get the Perl itself to be as good/consistent as possible, so now those issues are being slowly unravelled, and hopefully will set inxi on course for its next 10 years. It was starting to get annoying, because some parts of inxi used those spaces, and all newer ones didn't in general. Now it's one behavior throughout the whole program file. 2. Refactored the entire fs exclude for disk used data, and integrated those values into a global tool that is used either to exclude file systems from disk used totals, or to not show uuid/labels for the excluded remote/distributed/overlay type file systems, which in general don't have uuid or labels. |
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bug fix: long standing issue, if mobo temp undefined, was showing
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Many small updates, enhancements, bug fixes!!! We've been saving them up!! Here
they are!! Don't wait!!
Thanks mr. mazda for many issue finds, and suggestions.
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KNOWN ISSUES BUT CAN'T OR WON'T BE FIXED:
1. Due to unfixable rpm slowdowns, removed package counts for default output for
rpm based systems. We were seeing delays of up to 30+ seconds just to list the
rpm package count, which is absurd, even after the rpm optimizations inxi
already runs. To allow rpm users to get excluded by default for rpm package list
counts, added --pkg flag plus a short message telling them to use that flag to
get the installed package count if they want it.
Changes like this are very unfortunate, but in 2021 for a package manager at
times to require over 30 seconds to generate a trivial installed package list is
just not acceptable. One of the reasons this release was delayed was this was
not an easy decision to make, it's very rare support for a feature is removed
for specific tools due to how badly the tools may perform. Note that whatever
higher level tool is used, like dnf, zypp, it's still the same speed, they all
appear to use the same core engine.
Basically this decision was forced since either inxi looks really bad and slow,
when it's not, or the actual cause was removed from default outputs.
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BUGS:
1. Small bug in nfs blacklist for disk used led to nfs used being added, which
leads to silly used percents. This is corrected.
2. If ram vendor ID failed, inxi would delete the part number. Oops. This was
related to the Mushkin failures.
3. Close to a bug, though not one internally, but to users would appear as one:
ZFS does not act as expected, zpool list did not in fact return the pool size,
which I had always assumed to be the case, but in a very strange decision, does
return something very close to the pool size for mirrors, but NOT for z1 or z2
pools, then it returns the total size of the drives that make up the pool. To
call this strange behavior would be an understatement. The fix was to modify the
logic to use zfs list instead to get the size data. This also makes the drive
total report far more accurate, since it lists usable space now for ZFS as was
always intended. The cause of this was simply that I'd always had access to zfs
mirrors, not z1 or z2 arrays.
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FIXES:
1. OpenSuse and maybe others use kdm3 for Trinity, not kdm, so dm was failing.
2. Going along with fix 1, made kde version detection more robust so may catch
more fringe / corner cases for kde desktops. These were mainly added to correct
Trinity desktop version detections.
3. Mushkin ram vendor ID was failing, that is or should be corrected.
4. Added in /dev/disk/by-id handlers for zpool components, there are several
variants, wwn-, pci-, scsi-, ata-, but they all map to the real /dev drive IDs.
Failure to unmap these led to failing to match components and get size info
etc for zfs.
5. See DOCUMENTATION: 2, language changes for weather feature abuse.
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ENHANCEMENTS:
1. Going along with the rpm issues, added dnf.conf support to yum/dnf repo
types. Not sure how that one was missed, but there it is. This should tighten
repo reports for dnf/yum/zypp types.
2. Added LeftWM. LeftWM confirmed working. Added unverifed detections for:
penrose, 2bwm, 5dwm, catwm, mcwm, monsterwm, snapwm, uwm, wingo, wmfs, wmfs2.
3. Added xfwm as a compositor type, that had bee left out, somewhat on purpose,
since xfwm can run in compositing or non compositing mode. But should show
since many users use compositing mode now.
4. Added OpenMediaVault distro ID and systembase handlers.
5. Going along with zfs bug fix 3, using zfs list data for free, size,
allocated. Trying to understand how zfs developers actually thought about this
is nearly impossible so just used what seems to correspond to reality most.
Also shows raw values for zfs data in RAID along with regular ones to make
clear which is which value.
6. Added more CPU architecture ID matches for AMD Zen and a variety of Intel.
Both vendors finally released some new CPUs and the data became available,
which doesn't always happen quickly.
7. A bunch of new disk vendors and vendor IDs added. Never stops, like the
sands of time, like the ocean waves, like the scuttling crabs scrounding around
in the seaweed in the foam where the outgoing wave left its mark...
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DOCUMENTATION:
1. Added leftwm keybindinigs to inxi-data.txt desktop/wm section. Updated more
wm in that section as well, and list more info on wms for future reference etc.
Also reorganized and more more readable wm section.
2. Help/Man now make more clear that automated requests or excessive use of the
inxi weather feature are not under any circumstance permitted. There had been
some ambiguity and lack of clarity about what abuse is, now it should be more
clear.
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CODE CHANGES:
1. Refactored uptime parser logic, the code and regex was just getting too
messy and difficult to work with and debug, now it works similar to how the
revised BSD parsers run, the regex are pulled apart and made more granular so
a small syntax change ideally won't break the detections as easily.
2. Cleaned up sub cpu_arch() and made all the arch values line up nicely, over
time I notice that almost invariably stuff done to save lines of code makes
code harder to read as the feature expands, so it's generally worth just
unravelling it so it all stacks and is easy to scan/read. Also removed extra
white space in parens, which is something I'm leaning more towards but it's
not worth fixing all at once so it's just done where it's noticed.
That's using:
if ( /test/ ){
rather than:
if (/test){
I believe using more white space helped with Perl comprehension in the
intermediate stages, but is not required anymore and just looks like extra
whitespace now.
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Enhanced features!! Huge BSD upgrades! Bug Fixes!! Elbrus Fixes!! More bluetooth
fixes!! What are you waiting for?!!? A special thanks for significant help, ongoing, leading to a huge boost to BSD support, Stan Vandiver, who did a lot of BSD testing, and setup many remote access systems for testing and development of the latest BSD upgrades. If you're a BSD user, you can thank him for helping to expand BSD support! Take special note of the code folding fixes in Fix 1, those open up possible free software code editors that can be used to work with inxi to more than just Kwrite/Kate, to include scite and geany, nice lightweight code editors. You can't do real work in inxi without code folding, so getting this finally resolved was I think worth it. Also, for the first time ever!! inxi is now using Pledge, well, if OpenBSD::Pledge module is available, which is currently only in OpenBSD, since that's the only system that supports Pledge security, except for Serenity, but inxi doesn't support Serenity. Note that OpenBSD was smart and added OpenBSD::Pledge and OpenBSD::Unveil to Perl Core modules, thus removing any hoop that might stop a Perl program from implementing it. Nice going OpenBSD guys! The addition of OpenBSD softraid support for RAID and CRYPTO types highlights the problem with --raid and --logical, where --raid is really just a subset of Logical volume management. Note that while the hardware RAID feature only lists the actual PCI RAID device, OpenBSD bioctl supports hardware RAID out of the box, something I'd thought of doing in inxi for a few years, but it's too much work, but bioctl has done the work, which is impressive. Can't do much without a lot of debugger data there though, but it's worth being aware of. In this case, since softraid is the primary device, I opted to call Crypto and RAID types all RAID, same as with linear zfs. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KNOWN ISSUES BUT CAN'T OR WON'T BE FIXED: 1. FreeBSD: USB drivers. I really gave this a try, but could not get any logic to be stable across systems and varying syntaxes used. Will wait for FreeBSD to add drivers to usbconfig -vl. Note that this makes it not possible to correctly match USB networking devices to their respective IF data, so USB networking IF will fall back to the undetected IF-ID, which means it was found but not connected to a specific hardware device. 2. FreeBSD Battery Report: there are non-objective values for Battery state data in sysctl output, as in minutes remaining, which has no meaning, and percent charge (percent of what? original design capacity? current actual capacity?). If data with voltages, design/current capacity in Ah or Wh, is made available, support will be added. Note that there are 3rd party tools that do supply this data in a usable format, but they are not in core so no point. 3. BSDs All: have found no way to get physical CPU counts. this will lead to odd outputs in some cases, like a 2 cpu system reporting itself as a 2x the actual core counts single CPU, but the data just isn't there as far as I know. Dragonfly in some cases appears to have that data. 4. BSDs All: so far no way to get live per core cpu speeds using a file or fast command query. Thought I'd found a way in FreeBSD but that was not the correct clockrate values, or inconsistently right/wrong, so not using it. Also saw the same issue with max/min frequencies in FreeBSD so removed that item, it's better to show nothing than data that is not reliable or actually not even referring to what it seems to be. 5. BSD SOC Support: An issue poster asked why FreeBSD (but really BSD in general) SOC ARM device, like RaPi, support, was so weak in inxi. The reason is simple: to do SOC ARM device data in a meaningful way requires a complete path based data structure, which the BSDs do not appear to have, at least from what I've seen so far. See Linux's /sys data structures for examples of what is required to add or expand inxi SOC device support in inxi. It's hard even with that type of rich path based data, and without it I won't try. The bright side is inxi runs perfectly on such devices, no errors, which was amazing to see, and spoke volumes of the recent work done to extend support for the BSDs. 6. Perl / inxi, when run as root, shows read error when trying to open a 200 / --w------- permission /sys uevent file for reading. The test works as expected as user, but not as root. Perl will try to read it when run as root even though it has no read permissions, only write. This in reality only manifests on very old /sys, from Debian Etch kernel 2.26 days. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUGS: 1. tput + urxvt / FreeBSD: There appears to be a bug in Arch Linux urxvt that leads to failed terminal/console size from tput. Also while trying to resolve this bug, discovered that if you use "tput cols 2>/dev/null" in FreeBSD, for some inexplicable reason tput puts out defaults 80 cols x 24 rows. Why? Who knows. Added in non numeric tests of output to handle errors from tput instead. The bug appears to be what rxvt reports itself as vs what it is actually running as. This issue isn't present in any other distro I tried, but could just be a new bug in urxvt, don't know. 2. Elbrus CPU: Ongoing issue #197 Elbrus poster gave sample of new 2C3 cpuinfo, that exposed some bugs internally in inxi Elbrus handling, I was using integer values instead of hex for model IDs in the Elbrus logic, which would fail after model 9. 3. BSD dmesg.boot: The logic used for dmesg.boot data processing had errors, and had to be fully redone because of the need to detect in a reliable way the current state of USB drives. This logic now is much more robust and reliable, and no longer relies on using 'uniq' values per line, which would fail in all kinds of situations. 4. OpenBSD USB Speeds: bugs fixed for OpenBSD speeds, these were found during the USB data refactor testing process. 5. BSDs: in some cases, wrong memory used values were being generated, this should be largely corrected now. Also pulled the weird NetBSD use of /proc/meminfo which had wrong data in it, and now use vmstat for all BSDs, which after the used bug fixes, is more reliable for BSDs. 6. All systems: CPU stepping would report as N/A if stepping 0, luckily I came across some systems with an actual stepping: 0, which are not common. 7. FreeBSD: dmidecode sourced L2 cache data failed to show correct totals in some cases. Due to no MT detection possible for FreeBSD currently, these totals will still be wrong, but now it says note; check to let users know. 8. dmidecode: some cases were getting the wrong failure error message, this bug became exposed due to OpenBSD locking /dev/mem even to root, which then failed to show the expected message. This was a bug, and is now corrected. 9. FreeBSD: partition swap size didn't show in at least some cases, that's corrected. 10. Linux Partitions: partitions would let doubled swap items through in several cases, and also failed to create in rare cases matches for hidden partition mapped id's. Finally tracked down the actual cause, when moving the partition filters I'd forgotten to add swap into the filter list, oops. But now it will catch duplicates in several different ways, so that's fine. 11. Unmounted: Failed to properly handle detecting RAID components in the case of lvm, mdraid, it was only working for zfs. This was an accident, and should now be corrected. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIXES: 1. Code Folding: Note that this was NOT a bug or failure in inxi, it was a bug in scintilla/scite geany code editors with folding, basically if you commented out logic, without using a space or other marker after the comment #, folding would break in weird ways. Obviously the core scintilla engine should IGNORE the darned # commented out lines, but it doesn't, which is a real bug. But not in inxi. This was however worth working around, because without folding, you can't work on or learn how inxi works, and the only editor I know of in the free software eco-system that can handle folding reasonably accurately was until now Kwrite/Kate code editors, and those have some real, long standing, weaknesses, and bugs around folding that have never been resolved, and yes, did notify them about them, and no, they remain unfixed after years, or they were fixed briefly, then broke again. So it was important to expand the base of possible code editors to more than just the KDE stuff. Fixing this was tedious, but I think worth it. On the bright side, geany/scite folding / unfolding is FAST, and once the code issues that triggered folding failures were resolved, very accurate, much better than Kate's to be honest, though Kate isn't as picky, but Kate's unfold top nodes has been broken more often than it's worked. To avoid this issue, it's also important to configure geany/scite to use a space after the comment when using keyboard shortcuts to comment out lines/blocks. Same goes for Kate/Kwrite, by the way. 2. Battery: Forgot to add battery-force to -v7, which means you would never see the battery line in full output if there was no battery present, this is similar to how raid-forced worked, it was just an oversight which I hadn't noticed until testing the new BSD battery logic. 3. Indentation: small indentation fixes on Sound Server data. Those are visible with -y1, that is. 4. OpenBSD PCI: enabled Device matching to PCI networking device, this required an odd little hack, but seems to be pretty reliable, and allowed me to add driver to PCI device reports as well. Not sure why driver isn't in pcidump -v but it probably will be in the future. Note to self: add in support for that so if they include it in a future release, it will suddenly 'just work', assume they use the same basic syntax as usbdevs -vv output. 5. BSDs: Added in some null data protections for BSDs, which do not always have all the data types found in Linux, those would trigger Perl undefined value errors, which are warnings that inxi failed internally to test for null data in that, but it's hard to know when to do that when the data is basically always there in Linux. 6. Debugger: Added test for required Net::FTP module in debugger, had forgotten to make that test explicit, which led to odd failures. 7. BSDs: nvme detections should be better now. But I have seen no live test system to confirm the fixes work as expected, plus, at least, OpenBSD swaps nvme0 to sd0 internally, so I'm not actually sure how that data will even work, we'll see how that goes. 8. BSDs: oddly, despite using 0x hex numbers almost everywhere, for CPU stepping, the stepping is in decimal, which is even odder because CPU makers list their steppings as hex in many if not most cases. In case this is corrected in the future, if 0x appears before stepping number, will not then try to convert to hex since it already is. 9a. CPU L3: Subtle, probably won't change behaviors, but L3 cache is per physical CPU in every case I've found, so never multiply value by cores for L3. Like everything, this may lead to corner cases being wrong, but that's life, it will also lead to the data being right for most users. 9b. CPU L1: Different L1 syntaxes found so inxi now uses more loose detections, should cover most OpenBSD L1 variants at least. 10. BSDs: inxi was using internal 'sleep' right before reading /proc/cpuinfo, but that was silly for BSDs since cpu speeds there come from sysctl, so the BSD sleeps are now running before sysctl if CPU data feature is required. 11. Too many to remember, but lots of subtle message output changes to make more clear, more accurate, shorter, whatever. 12. USB: a very subtle fix, some devices can be both audio and video, like cameras, but inxi would default to the first detected. Now it checks for both before going to the list of checks, and correctly assigns a type that is both audio and video to the audio and video hashes so both features will show the USB device, not just Audio. 13: BSD: fixes for BSD ifconfig IF status, it was slicing off the full status string, like 'no network' to 'no', which is silly. Now shows full string. 14. OpenBSD: restored USB Hub ports: xx item, I hadn't realized that the data was still there with usbdevs but it required an extra -v, like: usbdevs -vv to trigger, so now the OpenBSD USB ports works fine again. 15. Fedora Xorg: updated --recommends to use the newer split apart xorg utils package names, only xrandr I think needed updating. Thanks Mr. Mazda for keeping up with that stuff! 16. OpenBSD SMART: the actual device being queried turns out to the 'c' partition, the one that represents the entire disk, NOT the main device ID, like sd0, so now inxi tacks on 'c', sd0c, when smartctl runs, and it works fine. So previously SMART report would never have worked in OpenBSD. 17. Partion labels/uuids: in Partitions and Unmounted, does not show label/uuid if fs type is ffs or if fs is a logical type one, like zfs, hammer, and remote fs mounts etc. This cleans up output, since these file system types will never have labels or uuids. 18. Mr Mazda inxi was missing data and showing errors if run in Debian Etch with Perl 5.008, and I realized I'd slipped up and had used the -k option without testing lspci version, but -k was only available in 3.0 in Lenny. But -v turns on -k automatically, so the easy solution was just to remove the -k and leave the -nnv, which is the same thing, but does not cause errors in early lspci. There are also errors with reading as root some /sys uevent files, but upon examination, those had only root write permission, so the perl -r test isn't right. Don't think that can be fixed. See Can't/Won't fix for more. Another issue I noticed was that in some cases Perl seemed to lose track of some hash values in local %trigger in OptionsHandler, and just lose them, thus leading to things like --help --version --recommends not working. Moving %trigger to globals %show and %use fixed that one, but that's weird, no idea what happened, but it works now. Tested in Sarge 3.1, where core modules have to be explicitly installed, they were not included in base Perl install. Kernel 2.4 had some key differences, different lspci syntax, different /proc/partitions, so the block device output and device output is flawed, but otherwise inxi worked fine in Sarge, from 2005! But these issues will not be corrected, kernel 2.24 is just too old, lol. inxi should always run ok in very old systems, like Etch, back to when Perl 5.8 was standard, so bugs like this are always welcome, it's easy to slip up and use something that didn't work in those old systems, then forget to test. 19. Corner case SMART errors, sometimes occur much later in output than inxi expects, this is now corrected and errors should show in smart data no matter where the main error type occured. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENHANCEMENTS: 1. Elbrus: Going along with Bug 2, Updated Elbrus microarch to use family 6, assuming models 10, 11, are the same, which they should be since 12 is the same as in family 4. 2. IPMI Sensors: More sensor syntax detections, sensors will never be stable... 3. OpenBSD: Rolled out live battery state feature, they have very good data, simple, but solid, that allows for a quality battery state report. Handles both Wh/Ah, though I am slightly suspicious of the reality of the arithmetic for Ah > Wh conversion, it seems to be too high. That's Ah * Design Voltage. But Linux battery data has the same issue, though I think in most cases, the data is in Wh, so this issue isn't BSD specific. My suspicion is that the voltages used to determine Ah may actually be slightly lower than the listed design voltage, which inxi calls min: but it's actually the design voltage. Unknown if NetBSD data is the same as OpenBSD for battery, was unable to locate any samples, so can't say, if you have a NetBSD laptop that correctly reports battery state in sysctl -a, please file an issue with some sample battery charge/voltage syntax and values, ideally from > 1 system. If the data is complete, it's easy to add support. 4a. BSD USB rev: inxi now emulates USB rev versions for BSD USB speed/rev version data. Note that this is not guaranteed to be right, because USB devices can be different rev versions than the speed they run at, but as far as I could find, the USB revision data is not available in any practical sense, unless I create a complicated recursive tool to build up a snapshot of the usb system and devices from dmesg data, but I already blew a day on that attempt, so will wait for more complete data in the usb tools in future. The rev version is based on the device/hub speed, using a standard USB rev speed mapping. But a 12 Mbps device can be rev 2, not rev 1.1, for example, that is, it's actually a USB 2.0 device, but a slow speed one. 4b. USB Type: Expanded fallback USB device type tests, these are useful for cases where it's either a vendor defined type, or for Open/NetBSD, which do not yet show USB class/subclass data. But it's a good fallback tool, added Mass Storage, expanded detections. 5. BSD Sensors: Going along with Enhancement 3, rolled out live sensors data. Confirmed working in OpenBSD and FreeBSD, not sure about NetBSD, no data, problem with vm testing is no sensors, but don't have any NetBSD hardware installs to verify. Stan gave it a good try, but could not get NetBSD running so far, maybe later. This basically means the -B and -s features are largely feature complete for the BSDs as far as practical, though due to difficulties in getting the data in a consistent clear way, some more advanced features, like gpu temps, which are now available in Linux kernel values and lm-sensors, do not yet appear to be present in the BSDs, though if this changes, the structures are in place to make updates to these logics very easy to implement now. Note that the --sensors-include and --sensors-exclude items, or config items, work fine with this BSD logic, though you have to figure out what exact syntax to use, but that's the same in Linux. 6. OpenBSD Pledge: Yes, that's right, inxi is now Pledged!!! In OpenBSD, anyway, they did a really good job, and the OpenBSD Perl packager made a very nice Perl modules, OpenBSD::Pledge, which was very easy to implement. Now I know what inxi needs to run its features!! So far OpenBSD only, but Pledge seems like a really good idea, so I figured, let's give it a spin, even if it will only currently work on OpenBSD, but that's fine, inxi is pledged as tightly as I could make it, including unpledging features not required post options processing, once inxi knows what it's actually going to be doing. Note that I'm aware of OpenBSD::Unveil, but that's a lot harder to implement due to never really being sure about what files inxi will need to be looking at until well into the logic. I may look at that in the future. 7. Bluetooth Rfkill: Due to ongoing failures in current inxi to show consistent Bluetooth hci report on Linux, added in one last fallback, rfkill state, which allows inxi to always fallback to at least that basic data. Also added in which tool is providing the report mostly, like: Report: bt-adapter ID: hci0 and so on. Also integrated into -xxx data, or for down state, the full rfkill report, since that can be quite useful. Note that bluetooth is a real pain for users to debug because you can have: * Bluetooth Service: enabled/disabled * Bluetooth Service: started/stopped * bluetoothctl: start/stop * bt-adapter: start/stop * hciconfig: start/stop * rfkill: software: block/unblock; hardware: block/unblock - however, for hardware, that means a physical button has been pressed to disable it, on the laptop that is. To make matters worse, one tool does not always even know when another tool has changed something, for example, if I rfkill blocked hci0, then unblocked it, hciconfig would keep seeing it as down until it was switched to on with hciconfig explicitly. This is I suspect one reason hciconfig is being dropped, it doesn't know how to listen to the newer tools like bluetoothctl, bt-adapter, or rfkill. 8. OpenBSD: Going along with Code Change 1, now has disk serial (doas/root), more consistent physical block size data, more reliable disk data, and for -Dxxx, duid, if available. Also added disk partition table scheme, aka MBR / GPT. Some of these new items may also work with NetBSD. See also Fix 17, SMART fix for OpenBSD. 9. OpenBSD/NetBSD/FreeBSD: the DiskDataBSD refactor now allows Unmounted partitions report. 10. OpenBSD: added in CPU MT detections using siblings data, I think only OpenBSD and Dragonfly support proper MT cpu core counts. Still no way to get physical cpu counts in OpenBSD or FreeBSD or NetBSD that I am aware of. 11. OpenBSD: added in cpu speed min/max data, that was available in most cases, didn't realize that. 12. BSDs: expanded and made more robust cpu L1/L2/L3 cache detections, now for example, OpenBSD will report its L1/L2/L3 cache without root. FreeBSD requires root since that data is coming from dmidecode. This logic update made BSD L-cache data much more reliable and consistent, and, important, easy to work with. This was directly connected to Code Changes 2 and 3, which made dealing with those data sources a lot easier. Note that L1/L2 cache data if not from OpenBSD will show note: check because it's not possible to determine if it's a multithreaded MT cpu or not, and thus if L1/L2 * core count would so often be totally wrong that inxi won't try to guess, it will just list the single value found, and tell the user to check it themselves. 13. OpenBSD: Added rcctl tool to init tools, I hadn't known about that one, that replaces the fallback default used before, /etc/rc.d. 14. RAM Vendor: Issue #245 raised the point that it would be good to try to show RAM vendor data when the manufactorer field is empty, and since that logic is already present in disk_vendor, it was just matter of researching the product IDs to find the matching patterns for the RAM vendors, the initial list is pretty good, but will need updates now and then to correct errors. Also will override only vendor ID 4 character hex value and see if it can find a better value. 15. OpenBSD RAM: data quality is decent (no vendor/product no, unfortunately). The data is often, but sadly not always, available. I'm not clear why sometimes it isn't, but since OpenBSD also defaults to blocking /dev/mem to even root user, which then blocks dmidecode, this is the only practical way to give basic RAM data for OpenBSD, so that's running fine now, when the data is available, with the added bonus of not needing doas/root. Note that due to the way that this data is present, I can have inxi deduce some things like how many arrays there are, and then guess at overall capacity, max stick size, and so on, but all Array-x: values are followed by note: est because they are never based on hard data, just extrapolations. I debated if inxi should even show the guesses, but I think by saying note: est after each Array-x: item, it's pretty clear that it's not hard data, and it does give an idea roughly. I made an initial guess at > 1 ram array but found no data samples to let me see if my guess was right or not, so > 1 array remains roughly theoretical until shown to work or not work empirically. While NetBSD sometimes has the system ram data in a similar way that OpenBSD does in dmesg.boot, it varies too much, and is too inconsistent. There are not enough data samples with good consistent data, and the samples I did see suggested that it would take too much code and convoluted logic to handle the variations, so I'm leaving this one alone. Also, NetBSD probably doesn't block /dev/mem so dmidecode should work fine. 16. Using system clang version info for OpenBSD kernel compiler, the assumption being that a BSD is an OS, so the Clang version it shipped with would be the clang version that compiled the kernel. Please correct if this is wrong. 17. OpenBSD RAID: support added for softraid, including for drive storage totals, unmounted raid component detections. Plugged in pretty smoothly, able to generate a partial report for non root, and shows message if not root. 18. VM detections upgraded, particularly for BSDs, now includes vmm, hvm, hyper-v, kvm. Not all of these would have been detected before. Also cleaned up vm logic, moved all vm detections into $dboot{'machine-vm'}, and only use the first found item. 19. Disk Vendors!!: Yes, last, but not least!! More disk vendors, vendor ID matches!! Yep. What else can I say? Eternity? Man's quest for something that cannot be found, yet these strivings never cease, here manifested by always new vendors and ID matches! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENTATION: 1. Very significant ongoing upgrades to the docs in inxi-perl/docs/, particularly in inxi-values.txt, inxi-resources.txt, and inxi-data.txt. These are now increasingly useful, and I am trying to keep in particular inxi-values.txt up to date as a primary reference for various features, though it will always lag, because that's how it is, lol. 2. Cleaned up changelog, made 80 cols wide for text, bars, etc, made numbered lists and headers consistent, but otherwise did not change any of the actual content. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CODE CHANGES: 1. Complete rewrite of BSD disk/partition data tools, now there is one core tool that generates a mega-disk/partition hash, which is then used for all features that need partition/disk data. This worked out super well, and allowed new features like BSD Unmounted disk data to be generated for the first time ever, along with filling in various block device fields that were missing before. 2. Change 1 also went along with a refactor of dmesg data tool for BSDs, which allowed for much more granular data generation, along with a complex %dboot hash which stores all sub types as well as the main full dataset. This allowed inxi to stop looping through all of dmesg data each time a feature needed it. Now all the data types are assigned if required by a feature, and only then. This, along with change 1, worked really well. See also Bug 3, which mandated completely changing how dmesg.boot and dmesg live data were / are merged, the result is far more robust now, and far less prone to error. 3. Similar to dmesg changes, used same methods for sysctl data, now all the data is assigned to %sysctl data structure based on if needed or not, so it only does the assignments one time, in one location. Much cleaner code this way, and allows for testing set/unset substructures, like $sysctl{'cpu'}. 4. The %dboot and %sysctl refactors went so well that I switched the core USB and Devices to also use %usb and %devices structures. These updates let me dump a lot of global hashes and arrays, and leaned everything down a lot, and also removed basically all the testing loops for these data types, now the Item features just test to see if a reference to the specific type exists, if it does, it has data, if not, it doesn't, this is a lot easier to manage. 5. Ongoing: moving related subroutines to Packages, the goal is to have pretty much all related subroutines (functions) contained in parent classes/packages, makes it easier to maintain. 6. Ongoing: making all internal package tools have similar sub names, getting rid of the specific names for output and data generator functions. This makes each Item Generator increasingly like all the others, as much as practical. 7. A big one, renamed all the feature generators to be XxxxxItem, instead of XxxxData, which was colliding as a package name with actual data generator tools, now all the Feature generators are [Feature]Item, and all the Data generators have Data type names where relevant. This avoided in particular the silly case where I was relying on case to differentiate UsbData and USBData, feature vs data generator. 8. As part of the move to data hash global structures, also moved as many of the top global scalars and hashes and arrays to these now much more heavily utilized global hashes, like %alerts, %use, %fake, %force, and so on. There are now far fewer globals running than before, and where it makes sense, I keep moving them into global hashes, and giving the global hashes more work to do. 9. Significantly expanded list of debuggers for specific data types always available, see docs/inxi-values.txt for list of options there. Decided for rapid development, it was too much of a pain to always be uncommenting the debuggers, so now am uncommenting, adding to @dbg supported items, then documenting. I guess this means the @dbg items are more or less stable and consistent now, give or take. 10. Refactored UsbData and DeviceData, for in particular the BSDs, to be much more robust and to rely less on very fragile regex parsing patterns, takes more lines of code, but better than having the detections break every other BSD release. This was part of the %device and %usb refactors as well. 11. Fixed system_files() too, which was really silly logic, it used a global packed hash of system files, then would do a function call for the paths when required, which was redundant since the values were already in a hash which could be used directly. This was a throwback to inxi gawk/bash, where hashes were not really used in this way, and the logic had been translated to Perl without thinking about it, but once I thought about it, I realized how silly that was. This must have knocked off a good 50 or more unnecessary, and always expensive, function calls. |
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Bugs!! Fixes! Spring cleaning!
Because these are either newly created, or newly discovered, bugs,
this release was pushed as early as possible to get them fixed asap.
BUGS:
1. Desktop: Lumina detection had a syntax error which made it not work.
This has been broken for a while.
2. Logical: if not root, and if LUKS / bcache detected, failed to load
proc_partitions, which generates error on --logical --admin since the
required components data was not loaded. This was an oversight.
3. The 3.3.02 ShellData refactor created a bug for console IRC, showed
shell, not irc client, name, and set default shell data which also
showed.
4. Console IRC tty: there was also an older bug that made -S, -G
not work consistently, and there were errors that had been missed
for many years in that logic. These should all be corrected, console
irc out of display, or in display as root, should now show tty info,
tty size in -G.
FIXES:
1. Memory: restored $bsd_type block on /proc/meminfo and force NetBSD
to use a corrected vmstat. This leaves that block of logic to correct
the NetBSD oddities in meminfo, but it may fix future isses that popup.
2. -Sxxx man page item incorrectly said XDG_VTNR was systemd/linux, it's
not, it's various things, GhostBSD has it, for example. See what you get
for believing what people say!
3. Logical: added in N/A for null maj-min in --logical report. While
bug 2 triggered those errors, there could be future cases where maj-min
are null, like BSD lvm data etc.
ENHANCEMENTS:
1. Going along with Fix 1, added '--force meminfo' in case you really want that.
2. Distro: System Base: Added TrueNAS detection.
3. Package Data: Added mport [MidnightBSD] type. That requires root to run
for some odd reason, so won't see the best output if not root.
CHANGES:
1. Moved logical to -v7 from -v8, it's stable enough now.
CODE CHANGES:
1. Moved get_tty_number and get_tty_console_irc to ShellData:tty_number
and ShellData::tty_console_irc.
ShellData::tty_number was being loaded several times, added
$loaded{'tty-number'} test, and made client{'tty-number'} to store value.
tty_console_irc changed to console_irc_tty, which is what it gets, removed
hacks and made it load once and store result in client hash.
2. Optimization: retested sub vs package::method and they run at exactly
the same time, give or take, so moving more stuff into packages to make
it easier to maintain.
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Huge upgrade!! Bug Fixes!! Refactors!!! BSDs!!! More BSDs!!!
raspberry pi!! New Features!!! Enhanced old features!!! Did I
mention bluetooth?! USB? Audio? No? well, all hugely upgraded!
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BUGS:
1. Sadly, 3.3.01 went out with a bug, forgot to remove a debugger,
resulted in hardcoded kernel compiler version always showing.
Note that there is a new inxi-perl/docs/inxi-bugs.txt file to
track such bugs, and matched to specific tagged releases so you
know the line number and items to update to fix it.
2. Typo in manjaro system base match resulted in failing to report
system base as expected.
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KNOWN ISSUES BUT CAN'T OR WON'T BE FIXED:
1. OpenBSD made fvwm -version output an error along with the
version, and not in the normal format for standard fvwm, this
is just too complicated to work around for now, though it could
be in theory by creating a dedicated fvwm-oBSD item in
program_values. But that kind of granularity gets too hard to track,
and they are likely to change or fix this in the future anyway.
Best is they just restore default -version output to what it is
elsewhere, not nested in error outputs.
2. Discovered an oddity, don't know how widespread this
is, but Intel SSDs take about 200 milliseconds to get the sys
hwmon based drive temps, when it should take under a
millisecond, this may be a similar cause as those drives having
a noticeable SMART report delay, not sure. This is quite
noticeable since 200 ms is about 15% of the total execution
time on my test system.
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FIXES:
1. For --recommends, added different rpm SUSE xdpyinfo package name.
2. Distro Data: added double term filter for lsb-release due to sometimes
generating repeated names in distro.
3. Packages: fix for appimage package counts.
4. Desktop: fixed ID for some wm when no xprop installed, fallback to
using @ps_cmd detections, which usually work fine.
5a. When swap used was 0, showed N/A, fixed to correctly show 0 KiB.
5b. If no swap devices found, BSDs were not correctly showing
no swap data found message. Corrected.
6a. Bluetooth: Removed hcidump from debugger, in some cases, that will
just hang endlessly. Also wrapped bluetoothctl and bt-adapter debugger
data collection with @ps_cmd bluetooth running test. Only run if
bluetooth service is running.
6b. Bluetooth: running detections have to be very strict, only
bluetoothd, not bluetooth, the latter can show true when bluetoothd
is not running, and did in my tests.
7. USB: with Code Change 1, found a few places where fallback usb type
detections were creating false matches, which resulted in say,
bluetooth devices showing up as network devices due to the presence
of the word 'wireless' in the device description. These matches are
all updated and revised to be more accurate and less error prone.
8. Battery: an oversight, had forgotten to have percent used of
available capacity, which made Battery data hard to decipher, now
it shows the percent of available total, as well as the condition
percent, so it's easier to understand the data now, and hopefully
more clear.
9a. OpenBSD changed usbdevs output format sometime in the latest
releases, which made the delicate matching patterns fail. Updated
to handle both variants. They also changed pcidump -v formatting
at some point, now inxi will try to handle either. Note that
usbdevs updates also work fine on NetBSD.
9b. FreeBSD also changed their pciconf output in beta 13.0, which
also broke the detections completely, now checks for old and new
formats. Sigh. It should not take this much work to parse tools
whose output should be consistent and reliable. Luckily I ran
the beta prior to this release, or all pci device detections
would simply have failed, without fallback.
9c. Dragonfly BSD also changed an output format, in vmstat, that
made the RAM used report fail. Since it's clearly not predictable
which BSD will change support for which vmstat options, now just
running vmstat without options, and then using processing logic
to determine what to do with the results.
10. It turns out NetBSD is using /proc/meminfo, who would have
thought? for memory data, but they use it in a weird way that
could result in either negative or near 0 ram used. Added in
some filters to not allow such values to print, now it tries
to make an educated guess about how much ram the system is
really using based on some tests.
11. Something you'd only notice if testing a lot, uptime failed
when the uptime was < 1 minute, it had failed to handle the seconds
only option, now it does, seconds, minutes, hours:minutes,
days hours:minutes, all work.
12. Missed linsysfs type to exclude in partitons, that was a partner
to linprocfs type, both are BSD types.
13. Added -ww to ps arguments, that stops the cutting width to terminal
size default behavior in BSDs, an easy fix, wish I'd known about
that a long time ago.
15. gpart seems to show sizes in bytes, not the expected KiB, so
that's now handled internally. Hopefully that odd behavior won't
randomly change in the future, sigh.
16. Fixed slim dm detection, saw instance where it's got slim.pid
like normal dms, not the slim.lock which inxi was looking for, so
now inxi looks for both, and we're all happy!
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ENHANCEMENTS:
1. Added in something that should have been there all along, now inxi
validates the man page download as well as the self, this avoids
corrupted downloads breaking the man.
2. Init: added support for shepherd init system.
3. Distro Data: added support for guix distro ID; added support for
NomadBSD, GhostBSD, HardenedBSD system base. GhostBSD also shows the main
package version for the distro version ID, which isn't quite the
same as the version you download, but it's close. Also added os-release
support for BSDs, using similar tests as for linux distros, that
results in nicer outputs for example for Dragonfly BSD.
4. Package Data: added guix/scratch [venom]/kiss/nix package managers.
Update for slackware 15 package manager data directory relocation,
now handles either legacy current or future one.
5. Repos: added scratch/kiss/nix-channels; Added GhostBSD, HardenedBSD
pkg repos.
6. USB Data: added usbconfig. That's FreeBSD's, and related systems.
7. Device Data: Added pcictl support, that's NetBSD's, I thought
inxi had supported that, but then I remembered last time I tried to
run netBSD in a vm, I couldn't get it figured out. Now debugged and
working reasonably well.
8. Raspberry Pi 3, 4: ethernet nic now detected; wifi device,
which is on a special mmcnr type, now works, that stopped working in
pi 3, due to the change, now it's handled cleanly. Also added support
for pi bluetooth, which lives on a special serial bus, not usb.
For Raspberry Pi OS, added system base detections, which are tricky.
Also matched mmcnr devices to IF data, which was trickyy as well.
Note that as far as I could discover, only pi puts wifi on mmcnr.
9. Bluetooth: due to deprecated nature of the fine hciconfig
utility, added in support for bt-adapter, which also allows matching
of bluetooth data to device data, but is very sparse in info
supplied compared to hciconfig. bluetoothctl does not have enough
data to show the hci device, so it's not used, since inxi can't
match the bluetooth data to the device (no hci[x]). This should help
the distros that are moving away from hciconfig, in particular,
AUR is only way arch users can get hciconfig, which isn't ideal.
10. New tool and feature, ServiceData, this does two things,
as cross platform as practical, show status of bluetooth service,
this should help a lot in support people debugging bluetooth problems,
since you have bluetooth enabled but down, or up, disabled, and you
can also have the device itself down or up, so now it shows all that
data together for when it's down, but when the device is up, it just
shows the device status since the other stuff is redundant then.
In -Sa, it now shows the OS service manager that inxi detected
using a bunch of fallback tests, that's useful to admins who
are on a machine they don't know, then you can see the service
manager to use, like rc-service, systemctl, service, sv, etc.
11. Big update for -A: Sound Servers: had always been really
just only ALSA, now it shows all detected sound servers, and whether
they are running or not. Includes: ALSA, OSS, PipeWire, PulseAudio,
sndio, JACK. Note that OSS version is a guess, might be wrong source
for the version info.
12. Added USB device 'power:' item, that's in mA, not a terrible
thing to have listed, -xxx. This new feature was launched cross
platform, which is nice. Whether the BSD detections will break
in the future of course depends on whether they change the output
formats again or not. Also added in USB more chip IDs, which can
be useful. For BSDs, also added in a synthetic USB rev, taken
from the device/hub speeds. Yes, I know, USB 2 can have low speed,
full speed, or high speed, and 1.1 can have low and full speeds,
so you actually can't tell the USB revision version from the speeds,
but it's close enough.
13. Made all USB/Device data the same syntax and order, more
predictable, bus, chip, class IDs all the same now.
14. Added in support for hammer and null/nullfs file system types,
which trigger 'logical:' type device in partitions, that's also
more correct than the source: Err-102 that used to show, which
was really just a flag to alert me visibly that the partition
type detection had simply failed internally. Now for detected
types, like zfs tank/name or null/nullfs, it knows they are
logical structures.
15. Expanded BSD CPU data, where available, now can show L1/L2/
L3 cache, cpu arch, stepping, family/model ids, etc, which is
kind of nifty, although, again, delicate fragile rules that
will probably break in the future, but easier to fix now.
16. By an old request, added full native BSD doas support.
That's a nice little tool, and it plugged in fairly seamlessly
to existing sudo support. Both the internal doas/sudo stuff
should work the same, and the detection of sudo/doas start
should work the same too.
17a. Shell/Parent Data: Big refactor of the shell start/parent logic,
into ShellData which helped resolve some issues with running-in
showing shell name, not vt terminal or program name. Cause of that
is lots of levels of parents before inxi could reach the actual
program that was running inxi. Solution was to change to a longer
loop, and let it iterate 8 times, until it finds something that is
not a shell or sudo/doas/su type parent, this seems to work quite
well, you can only make it fail now if you actually try to do it on
purpose, which is fine.
This was very old logic, and carried some mistakes and
redundancies that made it very hard to understand, that's cleaned
up now. Also restored the old (login) value, which shows
when you use your normal login account on console, some system
will also now show (sudo,login) if the login user sudos inxi,
but that varies system to system.
17b. BSD running-in: Some of the BSDs now support the -f flag
for ps, which made the parent logic for running-in possible for
BSDs, which was nice. Some still don't support it, like OpenBSD
and NetBSD, but that's fine, inxi tests, and if no support detected,
just shows tty number. Adding in more robust support here cleaned
up some redundant logic internally as well.
17c. Updated terminal and shell ID detections, there's quite a few
new terminals this year, and a new shell or two. Those are needed
for more reliable detections of when the parent is NOT a shell,
which is how we find what it is.
18. Added ctwm wm support, that's the new default for NetBSD,
based on twm, has version numbers.
19. Upgraded BSD support for gpart and glabel data, now should
catch more more often.
20. For things like zfs raid, added component size, that doesn't
always work due to how zfs refers to its components, but it often
does, which is better than never before.
21. To make BSD support smoother, got rid of some OpenBSD only
rules, which in fact often apply to NetBSD as well. That may
lead to some glitches, but overall it's better to totally stay
away from OpenBSD only tests, and all BSD variant tests, and
just do dynamic testing that will work when it applies, and
not when it doesn't. In this case, added ftp downloader support
for netBSD by removing the openBSD only flag for that item.
There's a bit of a risk there in a sense since if different ftp
programs with different options were to be the fallback for something
else, it might get used, but that's fine, it's a corner case, better
to have them all work now than to worry about weird future things.
But limiting it to only BSDs should get rid of most of the problem.
vmstat and optical drive still use net/openbsd specifics because
it is too tricky to figure out it out in any more dynamic way.
22. For -Sxxx, added if systemd, display, virtual terminal number.
Could be useful to debug subtle issues, if the user is for example
not running their desktop in vt 7, the default for most systems.
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CHANGES:
1. Moved battery voltage to -Bx output, the voltage is quite
important to know since that is the key indicator of battery state.
If voltage is within .5 volts of specified minimum, shows voltage
for -B since that's a prefail condition, it's getting close to
death.
2. In partitions and raid, when the device was linear raid logical
type layout, it said, no-raid, when it should be 'linear', that's
now cleaner and more correct.
3. When running-in is a tty value, it will now show the entire
tty ID, minus the '/dev/tty', this will be more precise, and also
may resolve cases where tty was fully alpha, no numbers, previously
inxi filtered out everything that was not a number, but that can
in some tty types remove critical tty data, so now it will show:
running-in:
tty 2 [not changed]; tty pts/2 [adds pts/]; tty E2 [adds the E];
tty rx [would have not shown at ll before]
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CODE CHANGES:
NOTE: unlike the previous refactors, a lot of these changes were
done to make inxi more maintainable, which means, slightly less
optimized, which has been my preference in the past, but if the
stuff can't be maintained, it doesn't matter how fast it runs!
These changes have really enhanced the quality of the code and
made it a lot easier to work with. It's also now a lot easier to
add debuggers, force/fake data switches, etc, so it gets done,
unlike before, when it was a pain, so it got skipped, and then
caused bugs because of stray debuggers left in place, and so on.
The bright side is while reading up on this, I learned that using
very large subs is much more efficient than many small ones,
which I've always felt was the case, and it is, so the style
used internally in inxi proves to be the best one for optimizations.
These refactors, ongoing, have now touched at least 1/3, almost
1/2, of the entire inxi codebase, so the stuff is getting more
and more consistent and up to date, but given how old the logic
is in places, there will be more refactors in the future, and
maybe once the code is easier to maintain, some renewed
optimizations!, if we can find anything that makes sense, like
passing array/hash references back to the caller, already the
first half is done, passing references to the sub/method always.
The second part is started, using the Benchmark Perl module,
which really speeds up testing and helps avoid pointless tweaks
that do little re speed improvements.
I could see with some care some areas where working on data
directly via references could really speed things up, but it's
hard to write and read that type of code, but it's already being
done in the recursive data and output logics, and a few other
places.
1. Large refactor of USBData, that was done in part to help make
it work for BSDs better, but also to get it better organized.
This refactor also made all the device items, like -A,-G,-N,-E
use the same methods for creating USB output, previously they
had used a hodgepodge of methods, some super old, it was not
possible to add USB support more extensively for BSDs without
this change.
Also added in some fallback usb type detection tools using
several large online collections of that info to see what possible
matching patterns could catch more devices and correctly match
them to their type, which is the primary way now that usb output
per type is created. This really helps with BSDs, though BSD
usb utilities suffer from less data than lsusb so they don't always
get device name strings in a form where they can be readily ID'ed,
but it's way better than it was before, so that's fine!
Moved all previous methods of detecting if a card/device was USB
into USBData itself so it would all be in one place, and easier
to maintain.
All USB tools now use bus_id_alpha for sorting, and all now
sort as well, that was an oversight, previously the BSD usb
tools were not sorted, but those have been enhanced a lot, so
sorting on alpha synthetic bus ids became possible.
Removed lsusb as a BSD option, it's really unreliable, and the data
is different, and also varies a lot, it didn't really work at all
in Dragonfly, or had strange output, so lsusb is now a linux only
item.
2. Moved various booleans that were global to %force, %loaded, and
some to the already present, but lightly used, %use hashes. It was
getting too hard to add tests etc, which was causing bugs to happen.
Yes, using hashes is slower than hardcoding in the boolean scalars,
but this change was done to improve maintainability, which is starting
to matter more.
3. Moved several sets of subs to new packages, again, to help with
debugging and maintainability. MemoryData, redone in part to
handle the oddities with NetBSD reporting of free, cached, and
buffers, but really just to make it easier to work with overall.
Also moved kernel parameter logic to KernelParameters, gpart logic
to GpartData, glabel logic to GlabelData, ip data IpData, check_tools
to CheckTools, which was also enhanced largely, and simplified,
making it much easier to work with.
4. Wrapped more debugger logic in $fake{data} logic, that makes
it harder to leave a debugger uncommented, now to run it, you have
to trigger it with $fake{item} so the test runs, that way even if
I forget to comment it out, it won't run for regular user.
5. Big update to docs in branch inxi-perl/docs, those are now
much more usable for development. Updated in particular
inxi-values.txt to be primary reference doc for $fake, $dbg,
%force, %use, etc types and values. Also updated inxi-optimization.txt
and inxi-resources.txt to bring them closer to the present.
Created inxi-bugs.txt as well, which will help to know which known
bugs belonged to which frozen pools. These bugs will only refer
to bugs known to exist in tagged releases in frozen pool distros.
6. For sizes, moved most of the sizing to use main::translate_size,
this is more predictable, though as noted, these types of
changes make inxi a bit slower since it moved stuff out of inline
to using quick expensive sub calls, but it's a lot easier to
maintain, and that's getting to be more important to me now.
7. In order to catch live events, added in dmesg to dmesg.boot data
in BSDs, that's the only way I could find to readily detect
usb flash drives that were plugged in after boot. Another hack,
these will all come back to bite me, but that's fine, the base
is easier to work on and debug now, so if I want to spend time
revisiting the next major version BSD releases, it will be easier
to resolve the next sets of failures.
8. A big change, I learned about the non greedy operator for
regex patterns, ?, as in, .*?(next match rule), it will now
go up only to the next match rule. Not knowing this simple
little thing made inxi use some really convoluted regex to
avoid such greedy patterns. Still some gotchas with ?, like
it ignores following rules that are zero or 1, ? type, and
just treats it as zero instances. But that's easy to work with.
9. Not totally done, but now moved more to having set data
tools set their $loaded{item} value in get data, not externally,
that makes it easier to track the stuff. Only where it makes
sense, but there's a lot of those set/get items, they should
probably all become package/classes, with set/get I think.
10. Optimized reader() and grabber() and set_ps_aux_data(), all
switched from using grep/map to using for loops, that means
inxi doesn't have to go through each array 2x anymore, actually
4x in the case of set_ps_aux_data(). This saved a visible
amount of execution time, I noticed this lag when running
pinxi through NYTProf optimizer, there was a quite visible
time difference between grabber/reader and the subshell
time, these optimizations almost removed that difference,
meaning only the subshell now really takes any time to run.
Optimized url_cleaner and data_cleaner in RepoData, those
now just work directy on the array references, no returns.
Ran some more optimization tests, but will probably hold off
on some of them, for example, using cleaner() by reference is
about 50% faster than by copy, but redoing that requires
adding in many copies from read only things like $1, so
the change would lead to slightly less clean code, but may
revisit this in the future, we'll see.
But in theory, basically all the core internal tools that
take a value and modify it should do that by reference
purely since it's way faster, up to 10x.
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d11f2a7a89 | small man fix | ||
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2b49b32223 |
Bug fixes!! Fixes!!! Refactors!!! Edits!!!
Bugs: 1. Big bug, 3.2 appears to have introduced this bug, for disks, rotation and partition scheme would never show, oops. 2. Tiny bug kept one specific smart value from ever showing, typo. Fixes: 1. Accidentally followed Arch linux derived distro page, which claims KaOS as arch derived, when of course it's not, it's its own distro, own toolchain, etc. I kind of knew this but had forgotten, then I believed the Arch derived distro page, oh well. Resulted in KaOS being listed with arch linux as system base with -Sx. Arch should fix this, it's not like it's hard, just remove the distro from the page. 2. Cleared up explanations for drivetemp vs hddtemp use, updated --recommends, man, and help to hopefully make this clear. Debian will be dropping hddtemp, which is not maintained, sometime in the coming years, sooner than later. Note that users unfortunately have to manually enable drivetemp module unless their distros enable it by default, but the man/recommands/help explain that. 3. Fixed smart indentation issues, that went along with code change 1, was failing to indent one further level for failed/age values like it's supposed to. Enhancements: 1. Added /proc/device to debugger, that will help track block device main numbers 2. More disk vendors, more disk vendor IDs!!! As noted, the enternal flow flows eternally, thanks linux-lite hardware database users!! and other inxi users, whose outputs sometimes reveal a failure or two. 3. Added loaded kernel module tests to --recommends, this was mostly to let users know that drivetemp is needed if you want non superuser fast drive temps, and that this came along with kernels 5.6 or newer. Hopefully word will start drifting out. Note that if inxi is using drivetemp values, drive temps will appear as regular user with -Dx, and will be to 1 decimal place. hddtemp temps are integers, and requires sudo to display the temps. 4. To handle issue #239 which I'd thought of trying off and on, but never did, added option to -Dxxx to show SSD if a positive SSD ID was made to rotation: So rotation will show either nothing, if no rotation or ssd data is detected, the disk speed in rpm, or SSD if an SSD device. There may be corner cases where this is wrong, but I don't have data for that, for example, if a disk is parked and has zero rotation but is a HDD, not as SSD. I don't know what the data looksl ike in that case. Note that if sudo inxi -Da is used, and smartctl is installed, it should be right almost all the time, and with regular -Dxxx, it's going to be right almost always, with a few corner cases. That slight uncertainty is why I never implemented this before. Legacy drives also sometimes did not report rotation speeds even when HDD, so those may create issues, but inxi will only call it an SSD if it's an nvme, mmcblk device, both are easy to ID as SSD, or if it meets certain conditions. It will not call a drive an SSD if it was unable to meet those conditions. INTERNAL CODE CHANGES: 1. Refactored the output logic for DiskData, that was messy, split it into a few subs, and also refactored the way smartctl data was loaded and used, that's much cleaner and easier to use now. Split the previous 1 big sub into: totals_output(), drives_output(), and smart_output(). Also split out the smart field arrays into a separate sub, which loads references to avoid creating new arrays and copying them all over when outputting smart data. References are weird to work with directly but they are MUCH faster to use, so I'm moving as much of the internal logic to use array raferences instead of dereferenced arrays/hashes assigned to a new array, or hash. 2. Redid all the output modules and renamed them to be more consistent and predictable, and redid the logic here and there to make the get() items be fairly similar on all the data builder packages. Now as with the data subs, which generally end in _data, now most of the output subs end with _output. 3. Roughly finished the process started in 3.2, got rid of redundant array loads, changed: @something = something_data(); push (@rows,@something); to: push (@rows,something_data()); which avoids creating an extra array, this also let me remove many arrays overall. 4. Missed a few hashes in machine data that were being passed directly, not as references, to other subs, corrected that. I think I missed those because they were %, so the search I did for @ in sub arg lists didn't catch the % hashes. |
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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
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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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6e4cd28791 |
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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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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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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5234e3903d |
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!! |