Package: cinnamon-common Version: 4.4.8-2 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer,
Was testing my Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix. Testers reported "System Info" not working. Ran 'cinnamon-settings' in terminal and SystemInfo returned: "moduel 'platform' has no attribtue 'linux-distribution'. I reported the bug on Ubuntu's Launchpad (bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cinnamon/+bug/1869565) and people have found this to be in all Ubuntu, and I have found in unstable (bullseye) debian. Basically, system info is looking for 'linux_distribution' but doesn't exist, not allowing it to work. Here is some additional info, you can find the whole scoop on the launchpad: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/cinnamon-settings.py", line 670, in button_press self.side_view_nav(widget, None, category) File "/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/cinnamon-settings.py", line 174, in side_view_nav self.go_to_sidepage(cat, filtered_path, user_action=True) File "/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/cinnamon-settings.py", line 189, in go_to_sidepage sidePage.build() File "/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/bin/SettingsWidgets.py", line 213, in build self.module.on_module_selected() File "/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_info.py", line 149, in on_module_selected infos = createSystemInfos() File "/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_info.py", line 108, in createSystemInfos s = '%s (%s)' % (' '.join(platform.linux_distribution()), arch) AttributeError: module 'platform' has no attribute 'linux_distribution' ProblemType: crash DistroRelease: Found on Debian and on Ubuntu 20.04. Package: cinnamon-common 4.4.8-2 Arch: amd64 File: /usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/cinnamon-settings.py Source Package: Cinnamon Kernel: 5.0.4-4 Lang/Locale: English (US) Can't find any other information that'd be somewhat helpful except cinnamon is base-and these link to cinnamon-control-center and cinnamon-settings-daemon. -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages cinnamon-common depends on: ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.36.0-1 ii gettext 0.19.8.1-10 ii gir1.2-cinnamondesktop-3.0 4.4.1-3 ii gir1.2-meta-muffin-0.0 4.4.2-3 ii libglib2.0-bin 2.64.1-1 ii python3 3.8.2-2 ii python3-xapp 1.8.1-2 ii xdg-utils 1.1.3-2 cinnamon-common recommends no packages. cinnamon-common suggests no packages. -- no debconf information