[SOLVED]vcgencmd not working

[wh7qq]

Today I tried to check the temp on my B+ running

Host: raspberrypiB Kernel: 4.4.26+ armv6l (32 bit) Console: tty 0
Distro: Raspbian GNU/Linux 8

and got:

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sudo vcgencmd measure_temp
sudo: vcgencmd: command not found

. It was OK at the first of Oct. Has something moved/changed in the recent updates?

[jahboater]

Why use sudo?

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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ vcgencmd measure_temp
temp=34.3'C
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ which vcgencmd
/usr/bin/vcgencmd
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ 

Have you lost "/usr/bin" from your $PATH environment variable?
Try "echo $PATH" and see if /usr/bin is included.

[DougieLawson]

You can build it from source if it isn't included with your distro.

cd /tmp
git clone https://github.com/raspberrypi/userland
cd userland
./buildme

[wh7qq]

@DougieLawson: vcgencmd did not exist anymore on this B+ although I had used it previously. There were no installation candidtates for it shown by apt-get policy so I followed your instructions, which failed due to cmake not being present. So I added cmake and after over 1/2 hr of compilation on the B+, I still get

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$ apt-cache policy vcgencmd
N: Unable to locate package vcgencmd

Wild goose chase. Maybe I need a fresh install because something surely got fu'd by a recent update. So far, all the time and effort not worth the time.

[rpdom]

vcgencmd is part of the libraspberrypi-bin package.

[wh7qq]

And that package is indeed installed but something got screwed up in a recent update.

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apt-cache policy libraspberrypi-bin
libraspberrypi-bin:
  Installed: 1.20161020-1
  Candidate: 1.20161020-1
  Version table:
 *** 1.20161020-1 0
        500 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/ jessie/main armhf Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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$ apt-cache policy vcgencmd
N: Unable to locate package vcgencmd

It worked on the B+ previously, it works on this RPi 3 now but it is gone from the B+. I am not going to screw around with it further...just do a fresh install. Other than some simple cron commands, nothing of great import is stored on that machine and my time is worth more than my curiosity.

[rpdom]

And that package is indeed installed but something got screwed up in a recent update.

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$ apt-cache policy vcgencmd
N: Unable to locate package vcgencmd

That is the output I would expect. There is no package called "vcgencmd", so apt-cache will never find it.

If librapberrypi-bin is installed correctly, then vcgencmd should be present

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pi@raspi8:~ $ which vcgencmd
/usr/bin/vcgencmd
pi@raspi8:~ $ ls -l /usr/bin/vcgencmd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Oct 24 13:04 /usr/bin/vcgencmd -> /opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd
pi@raspi8:~ $ ls -l /opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15176 Sep 22 09:07 /opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd
pi@raspi8:~ $ apt-cache policy libraspberrypi-bin
libraspberrypi-bin:
  Installed: 1.20161020-1
  Candidate: 1.20161020-1
  Version table:
 *** 1.20161020-1 0
        500 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/ jessie/main armhf Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

If it isn't there, reinstall the package

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apt-get --reinstall install libraspberrypi-bin

[wh7qq]

Thank you, that got it. I wonder how it happened and how to keep it from happening again...maybe a mystery I'll never know.