i8kutils

ACPI Error can't read "info":

Asked by Clemens Stary

I updated to 1.39 from the version how is in the ubuntu package manager (2009)
Now i got the this error when i try to run i8kmon:

1384097370 acpi: Adapter 0: on-line
can't read "info": no such variable
    while executing
"lreplace $info 8 8 $status(ac)"
    (procedure "read_i8k_status" line 45)
    invoked from within
"read_i8k_status"
    (procedure "make_ui" line 51)
    invoked from within
"make_ui"
    (procedure "main" line 5)
    invoked from within
"main"
    invoked from within
"if {$tcl_interactive == 0} {
    main
    vwait forever
}"
    (file "/usr/bin/i8kmon" line 689)

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Best vitorafsr (vitorafsr) said : 		#1

Hello.

This is a old part of code that is no longer used. But in verbose mode it is called, and asks for null variable. This is the cause of the error.

In the next release I will remove it. To solve it now, it is just to put a comment ('#') at the beginning of line 689 of /usr/bin/i8kmon.

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Clemens Stary (clemens-stary-q) said : 		#2

Thanks vitorafsr, that solved my question.