On March 2, 2021 8:26:12 PM UTC, Thorsten Glaser <t...@mirbsd.de> wrote:
>Evgeni Golov dixit:
>
>>> No, this is about the *vanilla* config shipped by the package.
>>> It used to work (my adjustment later was only regarding the levels
>>> of temperature as I’ve got an SSD, not HDD, so it can become a bit
>>> higher for quietness) and now the package doesn’t work at all.
>>
>>Yeah, but that config is gone from the upstream tarball as it's
>>deprecated.
>
>The YAML one?
The conf one
>
>tglase@tglase-nb:~ $ ll /etc/thinkfan.*
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1976 Jun 23 2020 /etc/thinkfan.conf
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6999 Jan 27 21:06 /etc/thinkfan.yaml
>
>Nope, still there, not dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile’d.
It should be dpkg-bak tho, weird.
>
>But let’s see…
>
>tglase@tglase-nb:~ $ sudo rm /etc/thinkfan.yaml
>[sudo] password for tglase:
>tglase@tglase-nb:~ $ sudo mv /etc/thinkfan.conf /etc/thinkfan.old
>tglase@tglase-nb:~ $ sudo cleanenv / /etc/init.d/thinkfan start
>Starting fan control tool: thinkfan
>ERROR: /etc/thinkfan.conf: No such file or directory
> failed!
Well, it needs *one* present, not both gone ;)
>
>… without that it’ll also fail, which means it’ll fail package
>installation, which is a serious (RC) bug.
No, the daemon is not started on install, exactly because neither the old nor
the new configuration is in a state where it's supposed to work out of the box.
>
>Honestly, all this hassle, I’d consider reverting to the last
>working (pre-YAML) version, if it were me, and try to work
>something out, over the next years, with upstream that actually
>works…
I'll just drop the package. I'm not using it myself anymore.
>
>bye,
>//mirabilos
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