No sensors detected

[Frylock2009]

I been trying to get my cpu temp with no luck at all. lm-sensors reports "no sensors detected" I decided to try pc wizard under windows. The processor info reports thermal monitor is supported. Is there some other angle I can go about monitoring my cpu's temp?

[robertdaleweir]

I been trying to get my cpu temp with no luck at all. lm-sensors reports "no sensors detected" I decided to try pc wizard under windows. The processor info reports thermal monitor is supported. Is there some other angle I can go about monitoring my cpu's temp?

Have you run 'sensors-detect', as root. (skip the single quotes) This should tell you if the Temperature sensor can be detected. It runs many different routines which require your input. The first group of outputs shows the Temperature as shown below:
AMD K8 thermal sensors... Success!
(driver `k8temp')
See if this helps with your problem. Cheers...
Robert

[Frylock2009]

Unfortunately sensors-detect is the wall I'm hitting. It does not detect and sensors. Was wondering if there's another way ?

[robertdaleweir]

Unfortunately sensors-detect is the wall I'm hitting. It does not detect and sensors. Was wondering if there's another way ?

What distro are you using? I am using fedora and a call to #rpm -q lm_sensors displays the following.
[root@red ~]# rpm -q lm_sensors
lm_sensors-3.1.0-1.fc11.x86_64

Make sure that you are mounting the proc filesystem in your /etc/fstab. You should have an entry that looks like:

none /proc proc defaults 0 0 or

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

Running #cat /proc/cpuinfo should show something if it is mounted properly. One possibility is to remove lm_sensors and reinstall it again, after a cleanup . It is important to have more information on your actual distro, kernel and hardware to be of much help beyond these items. Everything run a root. Not sure this is much help but more information would be helpful. Cheers...
Robert

[Frylock2009]

I'm runiing Ubuntu Jaunty 9.4 2.6.28-13-generic


k-dawg@k-dawg-desktop:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 2
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
stepping : 9
cpu MHz : 2394.147
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe pebs bts cid xtpr
bogomips : 4788.29
clflush size : 64
power management:

processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 2
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
stepping : 9
cpu MHz : 2394.147
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
apicid : 1
initial apicid : 1
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe pebs bts cid xtpr
bogomips : 4788.25
clflush size : 64
power management.

Contents of my fstab...

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=3994ca0a-2057-4a5e-a53a-83f7aef87328 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sdb7 during installation
UUID=090f5868-72a9-45a7-b5ea-d0fa89e3d4d0 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/sdb5 /media/myshit vfat iocharset=utf8,umask=000 0 0

k-dawg@k-dawg-desktop:~$ rpm -q lm_sensors
package lm_sensors is not installed
k-dawg@k-dawg-desktop:~$

Way would it report its not installed? Should I try just reinstalling in synaptic? or is there something else I should do? Any other info needed just let me know. thanx.

[bigtomrodney]

Did you run sensors-detect with root privilege? That is, using sudo?

Also don't use rpm to check if its installed, it's only there for LSB compatibility and doesn't look at your deb database which is your real package manager. Try searching for it in Synaptic or using the following command

apt-cache pkgnames |grep lm-sensors

If nothing is returned you don't have it installed yet.

[robertdaleweir]

Hi
lm_sensors is usually run as a service so however you check your service status in my case I run, as root, #service lm_sensors status. As to synaptic I think our fellow forum member, bigtomrodney has some help in his post and probably can help you from here better than I. Cheers, and you are welcome.
Robert

[Frylock2009]

sudo service lm_sensors status returned...
"$lm_sensors: unrecognized service"

And" apt-cache pkgnames |grep lm-sensors" returned
"lm_sensors"

I did run sensors-detect as root, wont let me run it otherwise. And it returns no sensors detected at the end. Is my problem possibly a result of doing something wrong in the first place?

[Frylock2009]

No more suggestions?