cannot open file /proc/fb on Ubuntu on Windows 10

[Log1x]

Hey there.

Just installed the latest Windows 10 after being hesitant to switch to Windows 10 for quite awhile now.

Bash for Windows is a breath of fresh air compared to using alternatives like Cygwin (Babun).

I grabbed screenfetch off the Ubuntu repository and all works well except I'm getting a fatal error for /proc/fb.

awk: fatal: cannot open file `/proc/fb' for reading (No such file or directory)
/usr/bin/screenfetch: line 1341: [: =: unary operator expected

I'm guessing this is due to Bash not being able to detect a GPU? Is there a way to fix this?

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Sorry for the initial title. Was typing clear in my terminal and it happen to go into GitHub's issue title and submit. 😿

[Log1x]

Appears this was fixed in the latest commit -- anyway we can get this pushed to Launchpad?

Thanks!

[darealshinji]

PPA was updated.

[Zachswan1]

Issue still persists for me. Using latest release available on LaunchPad.

[darealshinji]

@Zachswan1 New update on PPA should fix that

[hubdows]

Issue still persists with version 3.8.0-2~trusty.

awk: fatal: cannot open file `/proc/fb' for reading (No such file or directory)

[Pablo1107]

I have ArchWSL and this happens to me too. Any fix?

[ghost]

@Pablo1107, dc72b59 this commit fixed it for me

[darealshinji]

Good point, that commit should have fixed it.

[Xmetalfanx]

I can't comment on this exact issue, but I think it was on 16.04 (Ubuntu ..) based releases the default version of Screenfetch in the repos is not the newest version ... I wonder in some cases some of these issues ... heck i see "trusty" aka 14.04 in that screenshot ... are being caused by people running an older version of screenfetch before commits that fixed different issues were included.

I commented on another issue that has been closed now where i did see the same problem the user described ... then I added the ppa with the newest version, upgraded and it was fixed ... .this is what I am getting at

[Pablo1107]

@dahsameer the latest version on the arch repo is screenfetch 3.8.0-2, when that commit was released?

[darealshinji]

Maybe adding a template that tells the user he/she should check the latest version from git before making a bug report would help.