Bug 32842 - Plasmoid hw monitors are not working
Summary: Plasmoid hw monitors are not working
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: 9
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KDE maintainers
QA Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2024-02-13 22:14 CET by Tamás Hajdu
Modified: 2024-02-15 20:42 CET (History)
2 users (show)

See Also:
Source RPM:
CVE:
Status comment:


Attachments
after adding a CPU monitor plasmoid (79.44 KB, image/png)
2024-02-13 22:18 CET, Tamás Hajdu
Details
No selectable sensor in settings (46.05 KB, image/png)
2024-02-13 22:19 CET, Tamás Hajdu
Details
Both individual and total Cpu monitor widgets working using plasma under x11 (87.68 KB, image/png)
2024-02-13 22:32 CET, Dave Hodgins
Details

Description Tamás Hajdu 2024-02-13 22:14:43 CET
Description of problem:
None of the sensors are seen by KDE/Plasma. Any plasmoid that would monitor some HW is not working, nothing shows up on those. In respective configuration the sensorlist is empty. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
9

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Add for example a CPU monitor plasmoid
2.See that it shows up no data at all
3.
Comment 1 Tamás Hajdu 2024-02-13 22:18:49 CET
Created attachment 14379 [details]
after adding a CPU monitor plasmoid
Comment 2 Tamás Hajdu 2024-02-13 22:19:31 CET
Created attachment 14380 [details]
No selectable sensor in settings
Comment 3 Dave Hodgins 2024-02-13 22:32:50 CET
Created attachment 14381 [details]
Both individual and total Cpu monitor widgets working using plasma under x11

As shown by the attached image, both the individual and total Cpu monitor
widgets working for me using plasma under x11

Are you using wayland?

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

Comment 4 Tamás Hajdu 2024-02-13 22:34:27 CET
Yes, I am using wayland
Comment 5 Dave Hodgins 2024-02-13 22:55:49 CET
Just remembered, I have the updates for plasma from core updates testing
installed, so that may be part of why it's working for me.

The update https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32838 will likely complete
testing in the next few days after which they will be moved to core updates.

I just tested plasma under wayland, and the sensors are working for me there
too.

Please wait till that bug finishes qa testing and it's updates are installed
on your systemd (restart plasma after installing the updates) and then either
close this bug as fixed, or add a comment, including the output of
"inxi -v 2" (install inxi if you don't already have it).
Comment 6 Tamás Hajdu 2024-02-13 22:59:38 CET
ok, thanks!
Comment 7 Lewis Smith 2024-02-14 21:04:46 CET
Being one of those to whom Plasma is a nightmare, I have tried this on up-to-date M9 (not including updates pending) under X11 - but cannot find how to install the h/w plasmoids indicated. I did install a couple of 'widgets', not sure if that is what they are. BTAIM They appeared on the taskbar, but not Systray where I expected to see them.
Hard disc activity: looks sensible.
Total CPU use: looks sensible, both the figure in the launcher and the round graph.
System monitor sensor: icon circle blank, popup circle blank.

I will re-try under Wayland.

CC: (none) => lewyssmith

Comment 8 Lewis Smith 2024-02-14 21:16:49 CET
Wayland, taskbar 'widgets' ? not Plasmoids ?.
Hard disc activity: taskbar icon & its bar graphs looks sensible.
Total CPU use: both taskbar icon circle & expanded circle look sensible.
System monitor sensor: both taskbar and popup circles empty.

If pointed to these Plasmoids, I will try again. I added the 'widgets' by right-clicking Systray, 'Add widgets"; and choosing from those offered. Found nothing appropriate in the 'System Settings'
Comment 9 Dave Hodgins 2024-02-14 22:04:29 CET
The widgets appear on the desktop, not in the panel or systray.

Minimize all applications or select the "Peek at desktop" entry in the panel.
Right click on the desktop and select "Add Widgets...". Type in "cpu" (without
the quotes) in the "Search..." field. Left click on each of the "Individual
Core Usage" and the "Total CPU Use" widgets.

Those two widgets are then displayed on the desktop.
Comment 10 Dave Hodgins 2024-02-14 22:05:11 CET
To remove them later, right click on each of them and select the remove option.
Comment 11 Tamás Hajdu 2024-02-15 19:20:34 CET
just installed mga9 on a new machine (amd based desktop/server), using x11 (no wayland currently) and the same issue with the widgets is there.
Comment 12 Dave Hodgins 2024-02-15 19:51:33 CET
With the widgets on the desktop, is ksystemstats installed and running?
$ rpm -q ksystemstats
ksystemstats-5.27.10-1.mga9
$ systemctl --user status plasma-ksystemstats.service
● plasma-ksystemstats.service - Track hardware statistics
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/plasma-ksystemstats.service; static)
     Active: active (running) since Thu 2024-02-15 13:48:07 EST; 1min 18s ago
   Main PID: 210751 (ksystemstats)
      Tasks: 3 (limit: 19085)
     Memory: 5.3M
        CPU: 295ms
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-500.slice/user@500.service/background.slice/plasma-ksystemstats.service
             └─210751 /usr/bin/ksystemstats
Comment 13 Dave Hodgins 2024-02-15 19:57:50 CET
I see the problem.
$ urpmq --whatrequires-recursive ksystemstats|sort -u
ksystemstats
plasma-systemmonitor
task-plasma5

It's not required for task-plasma5-minimal.

Assigning to kde maintainers, to decide whether this should added as a
requires for task-plasma5-minimal or be added to the wiki, or errata.

Assignee: bugsquad => kde

Comment 14 Tamás Hajdu 2024-02-15 20:42:25 CET
and it works :) thanks. Probably this package was not installed on my laptop due to upgrade from 8, but it was not present there either. Now works on both machines. 

thanks

Resolution: (none) => FIXED
Status: NEW => RESOLVED


Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.