Debian Bug report logs - #655428
uname -i reports "unknown"

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: adam@spoontech.biz

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: uname -i reports "unknown"

Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:53:26 +1030

Package: coreutils
Version: 8.13-3

uname -i seems to only ever report "unknown" as the hardware platform.
strace shows that uname doesn't call uname() on debian, where as on other
distros (RH) it does. Tried on multiple systems, including Intel and AMD
systems.

Debian version: wheezy/sid
Kernel version: 3.1.0-1-amd64

Message #8 received at 655428@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com>

To: adam@spoontech.biz, 655428@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#655428: uname -i reports "unknown"

Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:05:36 -0700

severity 655428 wishlist
tags 655428 + wontfix
thanks

adam@spoontech.biz wrote:
> uname -i seems to only ever report "unknown" as the hardware platform.
> strace shows that uname doesn't call uname() on debian, where as on other
> distros (RH) it does. Tried on multiple systems, including Intel and AMD
> systems.

The root cause of the problem is that there isn't any better place
than uname(2), the system call, in order to get this information and
this information is not available from uname(2).  Therefore this
cannot be handled in any sane manor.  Plus the option -i is really the
same general problem as 'uname -p' which I mention here for search
purposes.  You should probably find a different source of information
for this if 'uname -m' isn't sufficient.

This is a duplicate of Bug#193170 and I might merge it with it.

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=193170

Here is an upstream discussion of the problem:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2005-09/msg00053.html

Bob

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