[lm-sensors] lmsensors doesn't detect core-i7 sensors

[Guenter Roeck]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 09:56:01AM -0400, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 06:26:34 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 04:16:41AM -0400, Mahmood Naderan wrote:
> > > >sudo /etc/init.d/lm_sensors restart
> > > 
> > > mahmood at localhost:~$<mailto:mahmood at localhost:~$> sudo /etc/init.d/lm-sensors restart
> > > .: 39: Can't open /etc/init.d/functions
> > > 
> > > Note there is no lm_sensors. I have lm-sensors
> > > 
> > 
> > I tried /etc/init.d/lm-sensors on a lucid (10.04) system and it works for me. It looks like
> > you overwrote the original version of /etc/init.d/lm-sensors with prog/init.d/lm_sensors.
> > That won't work - prog/init.d/lm_sensors does not work with lucid. You'll need to reinstall
> > the original version of /etc/init.d/lm-sensors and try again.
> 
> I proposed once to delete these initialization scripts from our
> repository as they are quite distribution specific, but the few votes
> were not in my favor.
> 
How about some kind of warning, or at least use different wording in sensors-detect ?

The current text is quite absolute ("Copy prog/init/lm_sensors.init to /etc/init.d/lm_sensors")
and really invites users to overwrite the distribution specific scripts.

Guenter