Comment 6 for bug 683591

From the debug output it looks like there are already duplicate entries for some sensors saved in sensors-applet's settings - basically what is happening is that libsensors is not providing consistent naming of sensors across reboots - so on first boot sensors-applet gets the list of sensors from libsensors with names A,B,C say, and then saves this list of sensors in its settings along with whether they are enabled etc, graph colour and whotnot. Then on next boot, for the same set of sensors, libsensors returns names D,E,F and so these look like different sensors (they have different names) and so sensors-applet may also save this new list of sensors to its settings - so now in the sensors-applet settings we have sensors A,B,C,D,E,F even though at any one time there is really only either A,B,C or D,E,F - so this is really a bug in libsensors for not providing consistent naming, not sensors-applet since there is no way to know that D is really A since it actually looks like a new sensor.