libgtop

Add support for NVMe devices

Bug #1835332 reported by Thomas Mayer on 2019-07-04

This bug affects 1 person

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
GNOME Applets	Fix Released	Unknown	auto-gitlab.gnome.org-gnome-gnome-applets #12
libgtop	New	Unknown	auto-gitlab.gnome.org-gnome-libgtop #43
gnome-applets (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

The system load monitor applet 3.28.0 does not show disk I/O when NVMe disks are used (white box in the screen shot). This is because NVMe devices are named e.g. /dev/nvme0n1 instead of e.g. /dev/sda1.

This is a tracking bug. To be fixed via

gnome-applets: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-applets/issues/12
libgtop (root of the issue): https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgtop/issues/43 (contains more details)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: gnome-applets 3.28.0-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-54.58-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-54-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.6
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME-Flashback:GNOME
Date: Thu Jul 4 04:12:13 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-11-29 (1677 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
SourcePackage: gnome-applets
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-09-18 (288 days ago)

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Thomas Mayer (thomas303) wrote on 2019-07-04:

Disk IO in system load applet (right box is white for NVMe disk) Edit (2.5 KiB, image/png)
Dependencies.txt Edit (28.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (1.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (112 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Thomas Mayer (thomas303) wrote on 2019-07-04:

A patch was provided at https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-applets/issues/290

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2019-07-04

Changed in gnome-applets:
status:	Unknown → New
Changed in libgtop:
status:	Unknown → New

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Thomas Mayer (thomas303) wrote on 2019-07-13:

Mate-applets merged https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-applets/pull/409 to work around the libgtop issue.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2020-04-09

Changed in gnome-applets:
status:	New → Fix Released

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2020-08-22:

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-applets - 3.37.2-1

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gnome-applets (3.37.2-1) experimental; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.
    - Adds support for NVMe disks when monitoring disk I/O (LP: #1835332).
  * Update build-dependencies according to configure.ac.
    - Replace libpanel-applet-dev with libgnome-panel-dev.
    - Remove intltool, no longer needed.
  * Remove dh_auto_configure override, no longer needed.
  * Update debian/gnome-applets.install for the new version.
  * Use debian/not-installed file instead of overriding dh_install.
  * Add more generated files to debian/clean.
  * Update debian/copyright.
  * Build-depend on policykit-1, to fix msgfmt error.
  * Remove /etc/sound/events/battstat_applet.soundlist conffile on upgrade.
  * Add Mini Commander applet to the package descriptions.