The 3.0.13 system base feature had a small bug in the logic that was supposed to
get the version id from codename, the bug made it never work. This is only relevant
for Ubuntu based distros, so if you are on some other base like Debian or Arch, you
can ignore this one, 3.0.13 will work fine.
No other changes, this was mainly for Mint, and other Ubuntu derived distros in
the future.
Bugs:
1. -I line, sometimes running in showed sudo. This is hopefully now corrected.
Fixes:
1. CPU architectures, small reordering based on hopefully more reliable data
source, but these are hard to find conclusively.
2. -S Distro id: switched ordering of prefered os-release sources, PRETTY_NAME
is not being used consistently, too many distros leave out the distro id found
in VERSION, so now it uses NAME + VERSION if both are there, then PRETTY_NAME
as a fallback. That reverses how it was, but it will provide better results for
most distros. Distros that did this properly to begin with should see no change.
3. Now that inxi is basically debugged and working, I've removed the output of
'inxi' from the -t lines. It remains for the pinxi branch however so you can
see how many resources pinxi uses to run.
4. ipmi sensors data are proving to be as random as lm-sensors. Added another
alternate syntax for sensors.
5. CPU: found an alternate syntax, again, for IPMI and sensors data, added
support, I hope, for that.
Enhancements:
1. Added /proc debugger tool to debugger. Due to oddities with how the /proc file
system is created, it will only run as user, not root, unless the --proc flag is
used. More programs added to debugger commands.
2. More disk vendor strings added, fine tuning of vendor detections. There is a
tendency in NVMe disk names to put the vendor name in the middle of the string.
That is now handled for a few key vendors.
3. Added basic ARM SOC and server support. This will require more work in the future
because the syntax used varies significantly device to device, but the featuers
are now in place to add that support. Most SBC ARM devices should now at least show
the model and details data in machine data, and some will show -G -A -N data as
well.
4. ARM CPU: added first attempt to show the cpu variant as well as the more
generic ARM data. This shows 1 or more variants, some ARM devices have two different
cpu cores running at different speeds. Odroid for example.
5. Added system 'base:' data for -Sx, that modifies Distro: in supported cases.
Currently only Mint and MX/AntiX supported because each specific distro must be
handled explicitly using empirical file based data tests. I decided against showing
this for rolling release, since really everyone knows that Antergos is made from
Arch Linux, so showing that does not provide much useful information, whereas
showing the Ubuntu version Mint was made from does.
Note that several derived distros are changing how they use os-release, so the
tools had to be revised to be more dynamic, which is a pain, and makes it even
more empirical and less predictable to print what should be trivially easy to
gather distro and derived source data.
If your distro is not in this list and you want the base data to be present, please
supply a --debug 22 dataset so I can check all the files required to make the
detection work. If your distro has changed methods, please note which methods
were used in the past, and which are used now.
6. Added Armbian distro detection, that's tricky. Added Rasbpian detections.
Added improved Antergos, Arco, and maybe Chakra, Arch detections.
7. Big one: Hardware RAID basic support added. Note that each vendor, and
unfortunatley, often each product line, has its own raid status and drive
reporting tools, which makes adding the actual drive/raid/status report part
very time consuming to add. I may only support this if a certain software maker's
raid tools are installed because they are much simpler to parse, but for now,
it only shows the presence of the raid device itself, not disks, raid status, etc.
Bugs:
1. Color selector accepted '' as a value, which it would then write to config
file, creating errors since it's not an integer value.
2. Corrected distro id error for last fallback case, making the distro ID out
of the filename itself, that was missing the assignment to $distro.
3. mmcblk0 was showing up as an unmounted partition, due to failing to filter
mmcblk[0-9] in unmounted.
Fixes:
1. Added missing compositor kwin_wayland to compositor detections
2. For -M, on laptops, sometimes Type: would duplicate in Chassis: type: which
looks silly, so now it checks to make sure the two values are different before
using the Chassis: type: data.
3. -D disk vendor, added GALAX, fixed Toshiba, which sometimes occurs other than
start of disk id string, so now it checks the whole string. This seems particularly
common in nvme devices from Toshiba. This is the only vendor I have found that
puts the vendor string later in the device id string.
4. Added protection against unreadable but present /etc/issue. This was caused
by a now fixed bug in OpenSuSe, which symbolically linked to create /etc/issue
from /var/run/issue, but with 600 permissions, root read only, that is. Note that
this bug has since been fixed (now has the correct 644 permissions), but I figured
better safe than sorry in case anyone else decides that's a good idea in the future.
Now only sends to reader if readable.
5. Related to 4, made reader not exit on failure, now just prints error message and
keeps going.
6. Upped maximum distro string length to 60, from 50. AntiX for example was coming
in at 48, so I decided to add some safe room now that inxi does dynamic sizing, it
is not a big problem having very long distro id strings.
Enhancements:
1. Added basic /proc data parser to debugger. Can't get all the data or files because
it's simply too big, but grabs the basics.
2. Added vcgencmd for some ARM rasberry pi debugging.
3. ARM: add model if not found in /proc/cpuinfo, or if different.
4. Added Tdie cpu sensor type, this is coming soon in latest kernels, so catching
it early. Tdie will replace k10-temp sensor item temp1.
5. Added --admin extra data option, and first set of extra data, -C, which will
show CPU Errata (bugs), family, model-id, stepping (as hex (decimal) or hex if less
than or equal to 9), microcode (as hex).
6. Battery: added with -x option, if found, attached battery driven devices, like
wifi keyboard, mouse. If upower is present, will also try to show battery charge
percent for those devices. Note that -B only shows the Device-X items if -x is used,
and will not show anything in -F unless there is a system, not device, battery
present, or if -Fx is used and there is a Device battery detected.
Added upower to recommends.
7. Basic -Dxxx disk rotation speeds added. Requires udevadm. Not all spinning disks
show rotation speeds, and it depends on udevadm, so if no rotation found, it shows
nothing.
8. Added explicit Arco Linux and Antergos distro ID support. This requires more
checks, but in theory, both should now show Arco Linux or Antergos instead of default
'Arch Linux' as before, plus extra data if found, like version.
This version is very peaceful, no big changes, just a few fixes and small new
features added.
This version corrects a few small glitches reported by users, and adds basic support
for disk speed report. Note that this is not as accurate as I'd like, it tries, but
there is not a lot of data to be had. Limits of disk speed seems to be, roughly:
1. most speed is reported as max board can do, not max drive can support
2. usually when speed is reported as lower than max board speed, it's correct, but,
as usual, exceptions to this were found during testing.
3. usually if drive is faster than board speed, it reports board speed, but, again,
exceptions to this rule were found during testing.
However, with this said, it's usually more or less right, at least right in terms
of the fastest speed you can expect to get with your board. NVMe was also supported,
that's much more complicated because NVMe has >= 1 lane, and each lane has up and
down data. The reported speed is max in one direction, and is a function of the
PCIe 1,2 20% overhead, and PCIe 3,4,5 ~1.5% overhead. inxi shows the actual usable
data rate, not the GT/s rate, which is the total transfers per second the unit
supports.
So due to the unreliable nature of the data, this is only a -xx option. There is
also in general no data for USB, and none for mmcblk (sd cards usually).
This feature may be enhanced with a C Perl XS library in the future, we'll see how
that goes.
FIXES:
1. corrected an issue where a networking card of type Bridge failed to be detected.
This is now handled. This was a PCI type I'd never seen before, but it exists, and
a user had it, so now it will work as expected for this type.
2. changed the default units in weather to be m (metric) imperial (i). While this is
not very intuitive for me, it's easier to explain I think. The previous c / f
syntax is supported internally, and inxi will just translate c to m and f to i, so
it doesn't matter which is or was used on a config file or with the --weather-unit
option.
3. BSD uptime had a parsing glitch, there was a spelling variant I'd never seen in
GNU/Linux that broke the regex. This is corrected now.
4. Fixed a few small man page glitches, some ordering stuff, nothing major.
5. Fixed BSD hostname issues. There was a case where a setup could have no hostname,
inxi did not handle that correctly. This fix would have applied to gnu/linux as
well.
6. Fixed a few bsd, openbsd mostly, dm detections, there is a secondary path in
OpenBSD that was not checked. This also went along with refactoring the dm logic
to be much more efficient and optimized.
7. Fine tuned dmidecode error message.
8. Fixed PCI ID issue, it was failing to catch a certain bridged network type.
9. A more global fix for unhandled tmpfs types, in this case, shm, but added a
global test that will handle all tmpfs from now on, and exclude that data from
-p reports.
NEW FEATURES:
1. First attempt to add basic disk speed (Gb/s). Supported types: ATA, NVMe. No
speed data so far handled or found: mmcblk; USB. Also possibly older /dev/hda
type devices (IDE bus) may not get handled in all cases. This may get more work
in the future, but that's a long ways off. This case oddly was one where BSDs had
support for basic disk speed reports before GNU/Linux, but that was really just
because it was part of a single data line that inxi parsed for disk data anyway
with BSDs.
2. Man items added for -Dxx disk speed options.
The main reason to release this earlier than I had hoped was because of the /sys
permission change for serial/uuid file data. The earlier we can get this fix out,
the better for end users, otherwise they will think they have no serial data when
they really do.
FIXES:
1. this bug just came to my attention, apparently the (I assume) kernel people
decided for us that we don't need to see our serial numbers in /sys unless we are
root. This is an unfortunate but sadly predictable event. To work around this
recent change (somewhere between 4.14 and 4.15 as far as I can tell), inxi -M and
-B now check for root read-only and show <root required> if the file exists but
is not user readable. I wish, I really wish, that people could stop changing stuff
for no good reason, but that's out of my control, all I can do is adjust inxi to
this reality. But shame on whoever decided that was a good idea.
This is not technically an inxi bug, but rather a regression, since it's caused
by a change in /sys permissions, but users would see it as a bug so I consider
this an important fix.
Note that the new /sys/class/dmi/id permissions result in various possible things:
1. serial/uuid file is empty but exists and is not readable by user
2. serial/uuid file is not empty and exists and is not readable by user
3. serial/uuid file does not exist
4. serial/uuid file exists, is not empty, and is readable by root
Does this change make your life better? It doesn't make mine better, it makes
it worse. Consider filing a bug report against whoever allowed this regression
is my suggestion.
BUGS:
1. A weather bug could result in odd or wrong data showing in weather output, this
was due to a mistake in how the weather data was assembled internally. This error
could lead to large datastore files, and odd output that is not all correct.
2. More of an enhancement, but due to the way 'v' is used in version numbers,
the program_version tool in some cases could have sliced out a 'v' in the wrong
place in the version string, and also could have sliced out legitimate v values.
This v issue also appeared in bios version, so now the new rule for program_version
and certain other version results is to trim off starting v if and only if it is
followed by a number.
FEATURES:
1. Added in OpenBSD support for showing machine data without having to use dmidecode.
This is a combination of systcl -a and dmesg.boot data, not very good quality data
sources, but it is available as user, and it does work. Note that BIOS systems
are the only ones tested, I don't know what the syntax for UEFI is for the field
names and strings. Coming soon is Battery and Sensors data, from the same sources.
Sadly as far as I know, OpenBSD is the only BSD that has such nice, usable (well,
ok, dmesg.boot data is low quality strings, not really machine safe) data. I
have no new datasets from the other BSDs so I don't know if they have decided to
copy/emulate this method.
2. By request, and this was listed in issue #134, item no. 1, added in weather
switchable metric/imperial output. Also added an option, --weather-unit and
configuration item: WEATHER_UNIT with possible values: cf|fc|c|f. The 2nd of
two in cf/fc goes in () in the output. Note that windspeed is m/s or km/h as metric,
inxi shows m/s as default for metric and (km/h as secondary). Also fixed -w
observation date to use local time formatting. That does not work in -W so it shows
the default value.
3. Updated man to show new WEATHER_UNIT config option, and new --weather-unit
option. Also fixed some other small man glitches that I had missed.
This is a big one.
NEW FEATURES:
1. By Request: Disk vendor is now generally going to be shown. Since this uses
empirical data to grab the vendor name, from the model string, it will not always
find anything. When it fails to find vendor data, no vendor: item will show.
Note that some MMC devices will probably not show vendor data, but that's due to
there being no data that reveals that.
2. Extended -sx volts to also show voltage from lm-sensors if present. Many
systems show no voltage data with lm-sensors, but now if any is found, it
will show, same as impi.
3. Moved to lsblk as primary source for partition/unmounted filesystem, uuid, and
label data.
Falls back to previous methods if lsblk does not return data. Some lsblk do not
show complete data unless super user as well.
4. Refactored code to be more logical and clear.
5. Added for OpenBSD -r: /etc/installurl file.
BUG FIXES:
1. CRITICAL: /sys/block/xxx/device/model is in some cases truncating the disk
model name to 16 characters. This is not an inxi bug, it's a bug with /sys itself.
To fix this, inxi now uses for GNU/Linux /dev/disk/by-id data which does not
ever do this truncation. It's also faster I believe to read that directory
once, filter the results, then use the data for vendor/model/serial.
this was also part of the disk vendor data feature.
2. Openbsd networking fix. Was not showing IF data, now it does.
3. Fixed bug with unmounted where sometimes md0 type partitions would show
even though they are in a raid array.
4. Fixed disk rev, now it searches for 3 different files in /sys to get that data.
5. Fixed bug with very old systems, with sudo 1.6 or older, for some reason that
error did not get redirected to /dev/null, so now only using sudo -n after explicit
version test, only if 1.7 or newer.
6. Fixed a few null results in fringe cases for graphics. Resolution now shows
NA for Hz if no hz data found. This was only present on a fringe user case
which is unlikely to ever impact normal X installations.
7. Fixed BSD L2 cache, was showing MiB instead of KiB, wrong math.
Bugs fixed:
1. CPU: MT/HT was wrong for old xeon, made mt detection more robust and hopefully
more reliable, removed all explicit b_xeon based tests.
2. fixed /dev/mapper glitch, that make /dev/mapper links fail to get id'ed.
3. openbsd: fixed memory handler; fixed cpu flags, fixed partitions handling.
4. freebsd: fixed similar partition bugs, these were caused by the darwin patch.
5. man page: fixed top synopis syntax, thanks ESR.
6. partitions fs: fixed possible failures with lsblk fs. lsblk: added debuggers
so we can track down this failure in the future.
7. added sshfs filter for disk used output, note, there is a possible syntax for
remote fs that isn't handled: AAA:BBB that is, no :/, only the :. This makes
explicit detection of still unknown remote fs very difficult since : is a legal
nix filename character.
1. Added to -s for ipmi, with -x: voltage 12v,5v,3.3v,vbat; for -xx, dimm/soc p1/p2
voltages
2. enhanced wm: feature, needed more filters and protection against redundant data
3. basic apple osx fixes to keep it from crashing, but I'm not spending any more
time on apple junk unless someone pays me for my time, I can't stand the product or
company, it's the total antitheses of freedom or free software, or even openness.
4. openbsd/bsd fixes: openbsd was failing to get cpu flags due to a small oversight
5. -C now shows bits: for the true bits of cpu, not the kernel bits. This is not
a reliable measurement but should be right about 95+ percent of the time, and
basically all of the time for GNU/Linux on Intel/AMD, most of the time for ARM.
When it doesn't know it does not guess, and shows N/A.
6. bsd fix for usb, was running numeric action on string value
7. fixed stderr tool for program_version, now it's hard-coded in program_values
which removes an unneded regex search for every program version test.
8. Mate detection, switched to using mate-sesssion instead of mate-about, the
latter is not getting updated and has the wrong version number on it.
