Re: inxi / pinxi 2.9.00 beta testers!
Posted: Thu May 10, 2018 12:45 am
I've checked, and there's two things going on, which it's important not to confuse:
1. not all systems have serials, I double checked, and two of mine have never had them. One has, and does not show it with 4.16 kernel, it did with previous one, I think 4.13.
2. other systems do have serial, but the file inxi reads is read only for root, which you can verify on your systems by simply running:
sudo inxi -Mxxx
3. some systems have the file, and have it as root read only, but it's still empty.
If an old inxi showed no serial, it probably never did.
This is on a computer by computer basis, some will have serials, some will not, some will have root read only serials now, and some I've seen as of 4.15 seem to show user serials.
inxi has changed a bit, it used to show nothing at all if not serial, that is, serial only showed if a valid entry was there, but now it shows N/A if no data was found. So it stands out more on recent inxi's than old ones. Technically I could add in tests there to see if the file exists but is not readable, with a <root> flag added.
1. not all systems have serials, I double checked, and two of mine have never had them. One has, and does not show it with 4.16 kernel, it did with previous one, I think 4.13.
2. other systems do have serial, but the file inxi reads is read only for root, which you can verify on your systems by simply running:
sudo inxi -Mxxx
3. some systems have the file, and have it as root read only, but it's still empty.
If an old inxi showed no serial, it probably never did.
This is on a computer by computer basis, some will have serials, some will not, some will have root read only serials now, and some I've seen as of 4.15 seem to show user serials.
inxi has changed a bit, it used to show nothing at all if not serial, that is, serial only showed if a valid entry was there, but now it shows N/A if no data was found. So it stands out more on recent inxi's than old ones. Technically I could add in tests there to see if the file exists but is not readable, with a <root> flag added.