Sysinfo reports incorrect Gnome version on Ubuntu 11.10
Bug #896512 reported by
Chris McIntosh
This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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sysinfo (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Iain Lane |
Bug Description
On Ubuntu 11.10, gnome-system-
Ubuntu
Release 11.10 (Oneiric)
Kernel Linux 3.0.0-13-generic
Gnome 3.2.1
and other information.
When running Sysinfo on the same machine (in the same session), it reports:
GNOME: 2.32.1 (Ubuntu 2011-04-14)
Kernel: 3.0.0-13-generic (#22-Ubuntu SMP...)
Clearly the Gnome version is incorrectly reported. I am, indeed, using Gnome 3.
lsb_release -rd reports:
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
Using Sysinfo package (0.7-6)
Hope this helps to improve an otherwise nice tool.
Changed in sysinfo (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
tags: | added: 12.04 |
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The problem lies in the gnome-desktop-data package. sysinfo gets its info from /usr/share/ gnome-about/ gnome-version. xml. This file actually comes from the gnome-desktop-data package.
There is a second package, gnome-desktop3- data, which also contains a gnome-version.xml file (in /usr/share/gnome/ directory). Indeed both gnome-desktop-data and gnome-desktop3-data each refer to itself as "gnome-desktop" in its corresponding README file contained in /usr/share/ doc/gnome- desktop- data and /usr/share/ doc/gnome- desktop3- data respectively.
As a temporary (and local) fix, I tried replacing the gnome-version.xml file in the /usr/share/ gnome-about/ directory with the one from /usr/share/gnome/. However, this did not work... apparently because the latter file does not contain the <description> section. So, I resolved to simply update the <platform>, <minor>, <micro>, <distributor>, and <date> sections of the former with the values from the latter.
This fixed the problem.