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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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README for inxi - a command line system information tool The new faster, more powerful Perl inxi is here! File all issue reports with the master branch. All support for versions prior to 3.0 is now ended, sorry. Make sure to update to the current inxi from the master branch before filing any issue reports. The code in pre 2.9 versions literally no longer exists in inxi 3. Bugs from earlier versions cannot usually be solved in the new version since the pre 2.9 and the 2.9 and later versions are completely different internally. =============================================================================== DEVELOPMENT AND ISSUES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Make inxi better! Expand supported hardware and OS data, fix broken items! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HELP PROJECT DEVELOPMENT! SUBMIT A DEBUGGER DATASET ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is easy to do, and only takes a few seconds. These datasets really help the project add and debug features. You will generally also be asked to provide this data for non trivial issue reports. Note that the following options are present: 1. Generate local gz'ed debugger dataset. Leaves gz on your system: inxi version 3: inxi --debug 20 inxi version <= 2.3: inxi -@14 2. Generate, upload gz'ed debugger dataset. Leaves gz on your system: inxi version 3: inxi --debug 21 inxi version <= 2.3: inxi -xx@14 3. Generate, upload, delete gz'ed debugger dataset: inxi version 3 only: inxi --debug 22 You can run these as regular user, or root/sudo, which will gather a bit more data, like from dmidecode, and other tools that need superuser permissions to run. ARM (plus MIPS, SPARC, PowerPC) and BSD datasets are particularly appreciated because we simply do not have enough of those. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE AN ISSUE IF YOU FIND SOMETHING MISSING, BROKEN, OR FOR AN ENHANCEMENT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- inxi strives to support the widest range of operating systems and hardware, from the most simple consumer desktops, to the most advanced professional hardware and servers. The issues you post help maintain or expand that support, and are always appreciated since user data and feedback is what keeps inxi working and supporting the latest (or not so latest) hardware and operating systems. See INXI VERSION/SUPPORT/ISSUES/BUGS INFORMATION for more about issues/support. See BSD/UNIX below for qualifications re BSDs, and OSX in particular. =============================================================================== SOURCE VERSION CONTROL ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://github.com/smxi/inxi MAIN BRANCH: master DEVELOPMENT BRANCHES: inxi-perl, one, two inxi-perl is the dev branch, the others are rarely if ever used. inxi itself has the built in feature to be able to update itself from anywhere, including these branches, which is very useful for development and debugging on various user systems. PULL REQUESTS: Please talk to me before starting to work on patches of any reasonable complexity. inxi is hard to work on, and you have to understand how it works before submitting patches, unless it's a trivial bug fix. Please: NEVER even think about looking at or using previous inxi commits, previous to the current master version, as a base for a patch. If you do, your patch / pull request will probably be rejected. Developers, get your version from the inxi-perl branch, pinxi, otherwise you may not be current to actual development versions. inxi-perl pinxi is always equal to or ahead of master branch inxi. Man page updates, doc page updates, etc, of course, are easy and will probably be accepted, as long as they are properly formatted and logically coherent. When under active development, inxi releases early, and releases often. PACKAGERS: inxi has one and only one 'release', and that is the current commit/version in the master branch (plus pinxi inxi-perl branch, of course, but those should never be packaged). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MASTER BRANCH ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the only supported branch, and the current latest commit/version is the only supported 'release'. There are no 'releases' of inxi beyond the current commit/version in master. All past versions are not supported. git clone https://github.com/smxi/inxi --branch master --single-branch OR direct fast and easy install: wget -O inxi https://github.com/smxi/inxi/raw/master/inxi OR easy to remember shortcut (which redirects to github): wget -O inxi https://smxi.org/inxi wget -O inxi smxi.org/inxi NOTE: Just because github calls tagged commits 'Releases' does not mean they are releases! I can't change the words on the tag page. They are tagged commmits, period. A tag is a pointer to a commit, and has no further meaning. If your distribution has blocked -U self updater and you want a newer version: Open /etc/inxi.conf and change false to true: B_ALLOW_UPDATE=true ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DEVELOPMENT BRANCH ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All active development is now done on the inxi-perl branch (pinxi): git clone https://github.com/smxi/inxi --branch inxi-perl --single-branch OR direct fast and easy install: wget -O pinxi https://github.com/smxi/inxi/raw/inxi-perl/pinxi OR easy to remember shortcut (which redirects to github): wget -O pinxi https://smxi.org/pinxi wget -O pinxi smxi.org/pinxi Once new features have been debugged, tested, and are reasonably stable, pinxi is copied to inxi in the master branch. It's a good idea to check with pinxi if you want to make sure your issue has not been corrected, since pinxi is always equal to or ahead of inxi. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LEGACY BRANCH ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you'd like to look at or check out the Gawk/Bash version of inxi, you can find it here, at the inxi-legacy branch (binxi): git clone https://github.com/smxi/inxi --branch inxi-legacy --single-branch OR direct fast and easy install: wget -O binxi https://github.com/smxi/inxi/raw/inxi-legacy/binxi OR easy to remember shortcut (which redirects to github): wget -O binxi https://smxi.org/binxi This version will not be maintained, and it's unlikely that any time will be spent on it in the future, but it is there in case it's of use or interest to anyone. =============================================================================== SUPPORT INFO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Do not ask for basic help that reading the inxi -h / --help menus, or man page would show you, and do not ask for features to be added that inxi already has. Also do not ask for support if your distro won't update its inxi version, some are bad about that. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENTATION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://smxi.org/docs/inxi.htm (smxi.org/docs/ is easier to remember, and is one click away from inxi.htm). The one page wiki on github is only a pointer to the real resources. https://github.com/smxi/inxi/tree/inxi-perl/docs Contains specific Perl inxi documentation, of interest mostly to developers. Includes internal inxi tools, values, configuration items. Also has useful information about Perl version support, including the list of Core modules that _should_ be included in a distribution's core modules, but which are unfortunately sometimes removed. INXI CONFIGURATION: https://smxi.org/docs/inxi-configuration.htm HTML MAN PAGE: https://smxi.org/docs/inxi-man.htm INXI OPTIONS PAGE: http://smxi.org/docs/inxi-options.htm NOTE: Check the inxi version number on each doc page to see which version will support the options listed. The man and options page also link to a legacy version, pre 2.9. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IRC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can go to: irc.oftc.net channel #smxi but be prepared to wait around for a while to get a response. Generally it's better to use github issues. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ISSUES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://github.com/smxi/inxi/issues No issues accepted for non current inxi versions. See below for more on that. Unfortunately as of 2.9, no support or issues can be accepted for older inxi's because inxi 2.9 (Perl) and newer is a full rewrite, and legacy inxi is not being supported since our time here on earth is finite (plus of course, one reason for the rewrite was to never have to work with Gawk->Bash again!). Sys Admin type inxi users always get the first level of support. ie, convince us you run real systems and networks, and your issue shoots to the top of the line. As do any real bugs. Failure to supply requested debugger data will lead To a distinct lack of interest on our part to help you with a bug. ie, saying, oh, it doesn't work, doesn't cut it, unless it's obvious why. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUPPORT FORUMS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://techpatterns.com/forums/forum-33.html This is the best place to place support issues that may be complicated. If you are developer, use: DEVELOPER FORUMS: https://techpatterns.com/forums/forum-32.html =============================================================================== ABOUT INXI ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- inxi is a command line system information tool. It was forked from the ancient and mindbendingly perverse yet ingenius infobash, by locsmif. That was a buggy, impossible to update or maintain piece of software, so the fork fixed those core issues, and made it flexible enough to expand the utility of the original ideas. Locmsif has given his thumbs up to inxi, so don't be fooled by legacy infobash stuff you may see out there. inxi is lower case, except when I create a text header here in a file like this, but it's always lower case. Sometimes to follow convention I will use upper case inxi to start a sentence, but i find it a bad idea since invariably, someone will repeat that and type it in as the command name, then someone will copy that, and complain that the command: Inxi doesn't exist... The primary purpose of inxi is for support, and sys admin use. inxi is used widely for forum and IRC support, which is I believe it's most common function. If you are piping output to paste or post (or writing to file), inxi now automatically turns off color codes, so the old suggestion to use -c 0 to turn off colors is no longer required. inxi strives to be as accurate as possible, but some things, like memory/ram data, depend on radically unreliable system self reporting based on OEM filling out data correctly, which doesn't often happen, so in those cases, you want to confirm things like ram capacity with a reputable hardware source, like crucial.com, which has the best ram hardware tool I know of. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COMMITMENT TO LONG TERM STABILITY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The core mission of inxi is to always work on all systems all the time. Well, all systems with the core tools inxi requires to operate installed. Ie, not Android, yet. What this means is this: you can have a 10 year old box, or probably 15, not sure, and you can install today's inxi on it, and it will run. It won't run fast, but it will run. I test inxi on a 200 MHz laptop from about 1998 to keep it honest. That's also what was used to optimize the code at some points, since differences appear as seconds, not 10ths or 100ths of seconds on old systems like that. inxi is being written, and tested, on Perl as old as 5.08, and will work on any system that runs Perl 5.08 or later. Pre 2.9.0 Gawk/Bash inxi will also run on any system no matter how old, within reason, so there should be no difference. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FEATURES AND FUNCTIONALITY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- inxi's functionality continues to grow over time, but it's also important to understand that each core new feature usually requires about 30 days work to get it stable. So new features are not trivial things, nor is it acceptable to submit a patch that works only on your personal system. One inxi feature (-s, sensors data), took about 2 hours to get working in the alpha test on the local dev system, but then to handle the massive chaos that is actual user sensors output and system variations, it took several rewrites and about 30 days to get somewhat reliable for about 98% or so of inxi users. So if your patch is rejected, it's likely because you have not thought it through adequately, have not done adequate testing cross system and platform, etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUPPORTED VERSIONS / DISTRO VERSIONS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important: the only version of inxi that is supported is the latest current master branch version/commit. No issue reports or bug reports will be accepted for anything other than current master branch. No merges, attempts to patch old code from old versions, will be considered or accepted. If you are not updated to the latest inxi, do not file a bug report since it's probably been fixed ages ago. If your distro isn't packaging a current inxi, then file a bug report with your packager, not here. inxi is 'rolling release' software, just like Debian Sid, Gentoo, or Arch Linux are rolling release GNU/Linux distributions, with no 'release points'. Distributions should never feel any advantage comes from using old inxi versions because inxi has as a core promise to you, the end user, that it will never require new tools to run. New tools may be required for a new feature, but that will always be handled internally by inxi, and will not cause any operational failures. This is a promise, and I will never as long as I run this project violate that core inxi requirement. Old inxi is NOT more stable than current inxi, it's just old, and lacking in bug fixes and features. For pre 2.9 versions, it's also significantly slower, and with fewer features. Your distro not updating inxi ever, then failing to show something that is fixed in current inxi is not a bug, and please do not post it here. File the issue with your distro, not here. Updating inxi in a package pool will NEVER make anything break or fail, period. It has no version based dependencies, just software, like Perl 5.xx, lspci, etc. There is never a valid reason to not update inxi in a package pool of any distro in the world (with one single known exception, the Slackware based Puppy Linux release, which ships without the full Perl language. The Debian based one works fine). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SEMANTIC VERSION NUMBERING ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- inxi uses 'semantic' version numbering, where the version numbers actually mean something. The version number follows these guidelines: Using example 3.2.28-6 The first digit(s), "3", is a major version, and almost never changes. Only a huge milestone, or if inxi reaches 3.9.xx, when it will simply move up to 4.0.0 just to keep it clean, would cause a change. The second digit(s), "2", means a new real feature has been added. Not a tweaked existing feature, an actual new feature, which usually also has a new argument option letter attached. The second number goes from 0 to 9, and then rolls over the first after 9. It could also be adding a very complicated expansion of existing features, like Wayland. It depends. The third, "28", is for everything small, can cover bug fixes, tweaks to existing features to add support for something, pretty much anything where you want the end user to know that they are not up to date. The third goes from 0 to 99, then rolls over the second. The fourth, "6", is extra information about certain types of inxi updates. I don't usually use this last one in master branch, but you will see it in branches one,two, inxi-perl, inxi-legacy since that is used to confirm remote test system patch version updates. The fourth number, when used, will be alpha-numeric, a common version would be, in say, branch one: 2.2.28-b1-02, in other words: branch 1 patch version 2. In the past, now and then the 4th, or 'patch', number, was used in trunk/master branches of inxi, but I've pretty much stopped doing that because it's confusing. inxi does not use the fiction of date based versioning because that imparts no useful information to the end user, when you look at say, 2.2.28, and you last had 2.2.11, you can know with some certainty that inxi has no major new features, just fine tunings and bug fixes. And if you see one with 2.3.2, you will know that there is a new feature, almost, but not always, linked to one or more new line output items. Sometimes a fine tuning can be quite significant, sometimes it's a one line code fix. A move to a new full version number, like the rewrite of inxi to Perl, would reflect in first version say, 2.9.01, then after a period of testing, where most little glitches are fixed, a move to 3.0.0. These almost never happen. I do not expect for example version 4.0 to ever happen after 3.0 (early 2018), unless so many new features are added that it actually hits 3.9, then it would roll over to 4. =============================================================================== BSD / UNIX ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BSD support is not as complete as GNU/Linux support due to the fact some of the data simply is not available, or is structured in a way that makes it unique to each BSD. This fragmentation makes supporting BSDs far more difficult than it should be in the 21st century. The BSD support in inxi is an ongoing process, with more features being added as new data sources and types are discovered. Note that due to time/practicality constraints, in general, only the original BSD branches will be actively supported: FreeBSD+derived; OpenBSD+derived; NetBSD+derived. Other UNIX variants will generally only get the work required to make internal BSD flags get set and to remove visible output errors. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRUE BSDs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All BSD issue reports unless trivial and obvious will require 1 of two things: 1. a full --debug 21 data dump so I don't have to spend days trying to get the information I need to resolve the issue file by painful file from the issue poster. This is only the start of the process, and realistically requires 2. to complete it. 2. direct SSH access to at least a comparable live BSD version/system, that is, if the issue is on a laptop, access has to be granted to the laptop, or a similar one. Option 2 is far preferred because in terms of my finite time on this planet of ours, the fact is, if I don't have direct (or SSH) access, I can't get much done, and the little I can get done will take 10 to 1000x longer than it should. That's my time spent (and sadly, with BSDs, largely lost), not yours. I decided I have to adopt this much more strict policy with BSDs after wasting untold hours on trying to get good BSD support, only to see that support break a few years down the road as the data inxi relied in changed structure or syntax, or the tools changed, or whatever else makes the BSDs such a challenge to support. In the end, I realized, the only BSDs that are well supported are ones that I have had direct access to for debugging and testing. I will always accept patches that are well done, if they do not break GNU/Linux, and extend BSD support, or add new BSD features, and follow the internal inxi logic, and aren't too long. inxi sets initial internal flags to identify that it is a BSD system vs a GNU/Linux system, and preloads some data structures for BSD use, so make sure you understand what inxi is doing before you get into it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- APPLE CORPORATION OSX ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Non-free/libre OSX is in my view a BSD in name only. It is the least Unix-like operating system I've ever seen that claims to be a Unix, its tools are mutated, its data randomly and non-standardly organized, and it totally fails to respect the 'spirit' of Unix, even though it might pass some random tests that certify a system as a 'Unix'. If you want me to use my time on OSX features or issues, you have to pay me, because Apple is all about money, not freedom (that's what the 'free' in 'free software' is referring to, not cost), and I'm not donating my finite time in support of non-free operating systems. ### EOF ###