What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. inxi -w 2. 3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead? inxi is so very handy, that I usually keep it open. One of the common options that I used was a -w, to get the local time and weather too. Tonight I started getting "/usr/bin/inxi: illegal option -- w Error 7: One of the options you entered in your script parameters: -w"

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? inxi: 1.8.4 System: Host: mint Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: N/A Distro: Linux Mint 16 Petra

Please paste your inxi output below. nt@mint ~ $ inxi -w /usr/bin/inxi: illegal option -- w Error 7: One of the options you entered in your script parameters: -w is not supported.The option may require extra arguments to work. For supported options (and their arguments), check the help menu: inxi -h mint@mint ~ $

Please paste your 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' output below. mint@mint ~ $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 37 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU M 620 @ 2.67GHz stepping : 5 microcode : 0x2 cpu MHz : 1199.000 cache size : 4096 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 4 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 11 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes lahf_lm ida arat dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid bogomips : 5319.96 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management:

processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 37 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU M 620 @ 2.67GHz stepping : 5 microcode : 0x2 cpu MHz : 1199.000 cache size : 4096 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 4 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 1 initial apicid : 1 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 11 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes lahf_lm ida arat dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid bogomips : 5319.96 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management:

processor : 2 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 37 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU M 620 @ 2.67GHz stepping : 5 microcode : 0x2 cpu MHz : 1199.000 cache size : 4096 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 4 core id : 2 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 4 initial apicid : 4 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 11 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes lahf_lm ida arat dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid bogomips : 5319.96 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management:

processor : 3 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 37 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU M 620 @ 2.67GHz stepping : 5 microcode : 0x2 cpu MHz : 1199.000 cache size : 4096 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 4 core id : 2 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 5 initial apicid : 5 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 11 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes lahf_lm ida arat dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid bogomips : 5319.96 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management:

mint@mint ~ $

please paste your 'cat /proc/meminfo' output below. mint@mint ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 3902420 kB MemFree: 285468 kB Buffers: 521188 kB Cached: 2267440 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 1744092 kB Inactive: 1577416 kB Active(anon): 1139880 kB Inactive(anon): 966924 kB Active(file): 604212 kB Inactive(file): 610492 kB Unevictable: 0 kB Mlocked: 0 kB SwapTotal: 0 kB SwapFree: 0 kB Dirty: 0 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 532944 kB Mapped: 116620 kB Shmem: 1573924 kB Slab: 227592 kB SReclaimable: 172372 kB SUnreclaim: 55220 kB KernelStack: 2984 kB PageTables: 17140 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 1951208 kB Committed_AS: 3466892 kB VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB VmallocUsed: 332756 kB VmallocChunk: 34359351716 kB HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB AnonHugePages: 0 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB DirectMap4k: 73480 kB DirectMap2M: 3973120 kB mint@mint ~ $

please paste your 'sensors' output below. mint@mint ~ $ sensors acpitz-virtual-0 Adapter: Virtual device temp1: +57.0°C (crit = +127.0°C) temp2: +0.0°C (crit = +127.0°C) temp3: +37.0°C (crit = +128.0°C) temp4: +53.0°C (crit = +127.0°C) temp5: +0.0°C (crit = +115.0°C) temp6: +36.4°C (crit = +128.0°C) temp7: +68.0°C (crit = +128.0°C) temp8: +65.0°C (crit = +128.0°C) temp9: +67.0°C (crit = +128.0°C) temp10: +78.0°C (crit = +128.0°C)

nouveau-pci-0100 Adapter: PCI adapter temp1: +68.0°C (high = +95.0°C, hyst = +3.0°C) (crit = +105.0°C, hyst = +5.0°C) (emerg = +135.0°C, hyst = +5.0°C)

coretemp-isa-0000 Adapter: ISA adapter Core 0: +61.0°C (high = +95.0°C, crit = +105.0°C) Core 2: +66.0°C (high = +95.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)

mint@mint ~ $

Please make at least an attempt to check your inxi version before posting an issue report. Then run: inxi -h. Then you will see what your inxi version supports. Obviously old versions do not support features from old versions, that's what the -U update option is for, to update inxi to current version.

After you update that ancient inxi (inxi is now at 2.1.27) you will find -w is magically there.

I think -w was introduced in 1.9, I don't remember.

I like -w too, it's fun, particularly useful for remote systems I find.

By the way, if your distro refuses to actually update inxi, file an issue report with them, there is NOTHING good about using old inxi's, and new inxi's will never break any compatibility so there is no reason for packagers to not update them always to current, unlike a lot of other software, that has a lot of dependencies and needs everything to be a certain version to run, inxi just needs the basic tools to exist.

"Obviously old versions do not support features from old versions,"

ooops, I meant, of course: Obviously old versions do not support features from newer versions

Thank you VERY Much. You are absolutely correct! This was my mistake. I was running Linux Mint from a Live CD on another system. So I just now typed "sudo inxi -u" and the inxi -w is there, as you stated it would be. Thank you again for this super useful tool, with all of its features.