Description of problem: service lm_sensors start gives an error message: Starting lm_sensors: loading module coretemp General parse error Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): lm_sensors-2.10.5-1.fc8 How reproducible: This started when kernel-2.6.24.3-34.fc8 was released and continues with kernel-2.6.24.3-50.fc8. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Add MODULE_0=coretemp to /etc/sysconfig/lm_sensors on Thinkpad T61p 2. run service lm_sensors start Actual results: General parse error lsmod | grep coretemp shows the module is loaded Expected results: lm_sensors should start
Created attachment 300057 [details] strace output from running /usr/bin/sensors
I updated to lm_sensors-2.10.6-53.fc8 from AtRPMS and sensors no longer gives a General Parse error. It appears something changed in the thinkpad hwmon sysfs entry which causes grief for lm_sensors 2.10.5. Please consider releasing 2.10.6 for Fedora 8.
This was already reported as bug 436767 and a fix has been available in updates-testing. Thanks for the reminder though, since the fix in updates-testing has not received any negative feedback I'll be pushing it to the stable updates repository now. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 436767 ***