hardinfo does not detect NVMe drive

[Jeffrey Walton]

I have a Dell XPS 8930 running Ubuntu 18.03 LTS. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078N85NCR .

The machine has a 256GB NVMe drive, and a 2TB classic hard drive. The OS and home directories are on the NVMe drive, and I use the hard drive for miscellaneous storage, like VMs.

It looks like hardinfo is not detecting the NVMe drive:

  $ grep Storage -A 5 ~/Desktop/hardinfo_report.html
  ...
  </table><table><tr><td colspan="2" class="stitle">Storage</td></tr>
  <tr><td colspan="2" class="sstitle">SCSI Disks</td></tr>
  <tr><td class="field">ATA ST2000DM001-1ER1</td><td class="value"></td></tr>
  <tr><td class="field">HL-DT-ST DVD+-RW GU90N</td><td class="value"></td></tr>
  <tr><td class="field">Multiple Card Reader</td><td class="value"></td></tr>
  </table><table><tr><td colspan="2" class="stitle">DMI</td></tr>

However:

  $ sudo blkid | grep -v loop
  /dev/nvme0n1p1: UUID="104A-E9C4" TYPE="vfat" PARTLABEL="EFI System Partition" PARTUUID="91452c19-7bab-428e-ac60-8feccf6a8ef1"
  /dev/nvme0n1p2: UUID="cf81d3e6-77eb-4d8f-bc58-b86396fe8f74" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="03157139-0ca0-4206-ba49-2a5fe42d6871"
  /dev/sda1: UUID="17844a61-9ced-4a5c-ab82-3c82c50dc12d" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="f8598b58-01"
  /dev/sda2: UUID="564cef3e-fe0e-49ef-9f5b-0e72e32ab068" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="f8598b58-02"
  /dev/nvme0n1: PTUUID="bba9b3e2-0f78-43c1-ac57-a1f755030d96" PTTYPE="gpt"

This may be a little clearer:

  $ sudo fdisk -l
  (loop devices removed)

  Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 238.5 GiB, 256060514304 bytes, 500118192 sectors
  Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
  Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
  I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
  Disklabel type: gpt
  Disk identifier: BBA9B3E2-0F78-43C1-AC57-A1F755030D96

  Device Start End Sectors Size Type
  /dev/nvme0n1p1 2048 1050623 1048576 512M EFI System
  /dev/nvme0n1p2 1050624 500117503 499066880 238G Linux filesystem

  Disk /dev/sda: 1.8 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors
  Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
  Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
  I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
  Disklabel type: dos
  Disk identifier: 0xf8598b58

  Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
  /dev/sda1 2048 3898640383 3898638336 1.8T 83 Linux
  /dev/sda2 3898640384 3907028991 8388608 4G 82 Linux swap / Solaris

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$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
Release: 18.04
Codename: bionic

$ apt-cache show hardinfo
Package: hardinfo
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.5.1+git20180227-1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/x11
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Simon Quigley <email address hidden>
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 836
Depends: pciutils (>= 1:2.1.11-10), zlib1g-dev, libc6 (>= 2.27), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.43.2), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.18.0), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0)
Recommends: lm-sensors
Suggests: mesa-utils
Filename: pool/universe/h/hardinfo/hardinfo_0.5.1+git20180227-1_amd64.deb
Size: 319100
MD5sum: 9a9d66ad2cd2a91f9a77be3f6445ab80
SHA1: b495ff39626a5c8f70a00d78689676ec53b3222f
SHA256: 79644f2e49d6b485f91c7dcdb3c68cccd50fe325075ec9bc2fef1c72e7c0873d

[Jeffrey Walton (noloader)]

Screen capture of Storage devices.

[Jeffrey Walton (noloader)]

hardinfo_report HTML

[Leandro A. F. Pereira (lafp)]

This has been fixed upstream. We're preparing a new release after 10 years
of no updates.

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 10:50 Jeffrey Walton <email address hidden> wrote:

> Public bug reported:
>
> I have a Dell XPS 8930 running Ubuntu 18.03 LTS.
> https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078N85NCR .
>
> The machine has a 256GB NVMe drive, and a 2TB classic hard drive. The OS
> and home directories are on the NVMe drive, and I use the hard drive for
> miscellaneous storage, like VMs.
>
> It looks like hardinfo is not detecting the NVMe drive:
>
> $ grep Storage -A 5 ~/Desktop/hardinfo_report.html
> ...
> </table><table><tr><td colspan="2" class="stitle">Storage</td></tr>
> <tr><td colspan="2" class="sstitle">SCSI Disks</td></tr>
> <tr><td class="field">ATA ST2000DM001-1ER1</td><td
> class="value"></td></tr>
> <tr><td class="field">HL-DT-ST DVD+-RW GU90N</td><td
> class="value"></td></tr>
> <tr><td class="field">Multiple Card Reader</td><td
> class="value"></td></tr>
> </table><table><tr><td colspan="2" class="stitle">DMI</td></tr>
>
> However:
>
> $ sudo blkid | grep -v loop
> /dev/nvme0n1p1: UUID="104A-E9C4" TYPE="vfat" PARTLABEL="EFI System
> Partition" PARTUUID="91452c19-7bab-428e-ac60-8feccf6a8ef1"
> /dev/nvme0n1p2: UUID="cf81d3e6-77eb-4d8f-bc58-b86396fe8f74" TYPE="ext4"
> PARTUUID="03157139-0ca0-4206-ba49-2a5fe42d6871"
> /dev/sda1: UUID="17844a61-9ced-4a5c-ab82-3c82c50dc12d" TYPE="ext4"
> PARTUUID="f8598b58-01"
> /dev/sda2: UUID="564cef3e-fe0e-49ef-9f5b-0e72e32ab068" TYPE="swap"
> PARTUUID="f8598b58-02"
> /dev/nvme0n1: PTUUID="bba9b3e2-0f78-43c1-ac57-a1f755030d96" PTTYPE="gpt"
>
> This may be a little clearer:
>
> $ sudo fdisk -l
> (loop devices removed)
>
> Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 238.5 GiB, 256060514304 bytes, 500118192 sectors
> Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disklabel type: gpt
> Disk identifier: BBA9B3E2-0F78-43C1-AC57-A1F755030D96
>
> Device Start End Sectors Size Type
> /dev/nvme0n1p1 2048 1050623 1048576 512M EFI System
> /dev/nvme0n1p2 1050624 500117503 499066880 238G Linux filesystem
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 1.8 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors
> Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
> Disklabel type: dos
> Disk identifier: 0xf8598b58
>
> Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
> /dev/sda1 2048 3898640383 3898638336 1.8T 83 Linux
> /dev/sda2 3898640384 3907028991 8388608 4G 82 Linux swap /
> Solaris
>
> ------
>
> $ lsb_release -a
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> Description: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
> Release: 18.04
> Codename: bionic
>
> $ apt-cache show hardinfo
> Package: hardinfo
> Architecture: amd64
> Version: 0.5.1+git20180227-1
> Priority: optional
> Section: universe/x11
> Origin: Ubuntu
> Maintainer: Simon Quigley <email address hidden>
> Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
> Installed-Size: 836
> Depends: pciutils (...

[Jeffrey Walton (noloader)]

@leonardo,

> This has been fixed upstream. We're preparing a new release after 10 years
> of no updates.

Thanks. That was a hell of a run.

I'd like to get to one month. I can't imagine what 10 years is like.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Romain LOUTREL (r-loutrel+dev)]

Should https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hardinfo/+bug/1940749 not be marked as duplicate of this bug, so that the users find easily the current bug (and can mark themself as 'affected' here)?

I read this as been fixed, but not in the official repos of 22.04. Is there an alternative repository?