column layout in "sensors" is broken for voltages of 1000.00 mV

Thank you for taking the time to file a bug report.

Could you please describe how you are running the "sensors" command? I was not able to obtain these values you mentioned, and I would like to understand how the output is being formatted in your machine, and why you think this is a problem.

Since there is not enough information in your report to begin triage or to
differentiate between a local configuration problem and a bug in Ubuntu, I
am marking this bug as "Incomplete". We would be grateful if you would:
provide a more complete description of the problem, explain why you
believe this is a bug in Ubuntu rather than a problem specific to your
system, and then change the bug status back to "New".

For local configuration issues, you can find assistance here:
http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community

I am running the "sensors" command by typing "sensors" into a terminal window and hitting Enter.

It is a bug because the column layout is broken for some voltage values which happen to be relatively common on my system, see the "in6" value:

ct6798-isa-0290
Adapter: ISA adapter
in0: 944.00 mV (min = +0.00 V, max = +1.74 V)
in1: 1.01 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +0.00 V) ALARM
in2: 3.34 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +0.00 V) ALARM
in3: 3.31 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +0.00 V) ALARM
in4: 1.02 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +0.00 V) ALARM
in5: 816.00 mV (min = +0.00 V, max = +0.00 V) ALARM
in6: 1000.00 mV (min = +0.00 V, max = +0.00 V) ALARM
in7: 3.34 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +0.00 V) ALARM

Sorry, the web form completely killed the column layout.

Here it is again with underscores instead of spaces:

nct6798-isa-0290
Adapter:_ISA_adapter
in0:___________________944.00_mV_(min_=__+0.00_V,_max_=__+1.74_V)
in1:_____________________1.01_V__(min_=__+0.00_V,_max_=__+0.00_V)__ALARM
in2:_____________________3.34_V__(min_=__+0.00_V,_max_=__+0.00_V)__ALARM
in3:_____________________3.31_V__(min_=__+0.00_V,_max_=__+0.00_V)__ALARM
in4:_____________________1.02_V__(min_=__+0.00_V,_max_=__+0.00_V)__ALARM
in5:___________________816.00_mV_(min_=__+0.00_V,_max_=__+0.00_V)__ALARM
in6:___________________1000.00_mV_(min_=__+0.00_V,_max_=__+0.00_V)__ALARM
in7:_____________________3.34_V__(min_=__+0.00_V,_max_=__+0.00_V)__ALARM

Hi Florian, I set the Importance of this bug report to Low, as the issue is cosmetic.

Ideally this should be fixed upstream: this way the fix will be picked up by Debian/Ubuntu and other distributions without the added maintenance need of carrying an Ubuntu-specific delta.

Would you consider forwarding this bug to the lm-sensors upstream developers, and add a link to the upstream bug report (or mailing list message) to this Ubuntu bug report?

Thanks!

Hi again,

After thinking a bit about this bug, I think it is fairly safe to say that we as distro won't fix it. It is entirely cosmetic, and as Paride already said, the best place to raise such issues is directly with upstream.

If you would like to report an issue with them, please follow this link:

https://github.com/lm-sensors/lm-sensors/issues/new

Ideally you will have to provide reproducible steps, but I think it should be trivial for upstream to check for the validity of the bug.

I am not going to mark this as Won't Fix just yet, but will downgrade its severity to Wishlist.

As per the last comment, this change is best proposed upstream directly.