Comment 53 for bug 206280

skrimpy-

If you run 'xsensors' and you get a tiny minimized-looking window that is blank when you expand the bug is fixed. This is NOT the bug. This simply means that you either don't have the sensors setup or they don't exist for your hardware- try sudo sensors-detect as was mentioned. The bug is that if you run xsensors it will fail to launch and say:

user@user-desktop:~$ xsensors
Error opening config file: /etc/sensors.conf
Use -c option to specify location of lm_sensors configuration file.

In my case it would be 'xsensors -c /etc/sensors3.conf' and I got the empty window even after running sudo sensors-detect. As far as my process, its been quite a few months now but I think I applied the jaunty patch after downloading it from this page, and after applying the patch, the only difference is I didn't have to use the -c option. Based on your results, it sounds like you properly patched it, you just may not have realized it since the behavior afterwards was not what was expected.

Hope that helps.