After upgrade from Debian 11 to Debian 12: plasmoids stopped working.

[A. F. Cano]

On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 10:37:51PM +0200, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> On Tuesday September 12 2023 15:57:03 A. F. Cano wrote:
> 
> >Another data point:  On a Mac Pro, Debian 12 (kde-full 5:142)
> >with 2 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPUs  E5320  @ 1.86GHz, 4 cores each:
> >"Individual Core Usage" -> "Sensor Details" shows all 8 cores.
> >
> >"Individual Core Usage" works fine
> >"System Load" produces no output.
> >
> >Any idea what the problem could be? I'm reluctant to upgrade my main system
> >if things like this are going to break.  Can I provide some spefic data that
> >might help pinpoint the problem?
> 
> I don't know what backend your plasmoid uses, but 2 things you could try to see if more traditional utilities also have problems:
> 
> 1) From a shell, run `sensors-detect` (as root, let it run all the tests it proposes) followed by `sensors`. 
> 
> 2) Also from a shell, run `solid-hardware list details`
> 
> R.

Apparently the "System Load Viewer" is obsolete.  I couldn't make it
work.  But there is a very similar plasmoid called "System Monitor
Plasmoid" that works.  WHen downloading it the system gave me a choice
of versions. I chose the latest: 2.7 and it works.  This is the version
by Barry Strong (thanks Barry!).  Maybe the old "System Load Viewer"
should be removed?

Augustine