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. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/896512 Title: Sysinfo reports incorrect Gnome version on Ubuntu 11.10 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sysinfo/+bug/896512/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
