GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 581084
Ubuntu Karmic Koala: "Platform not supported"
Last modified: 2009-06-27 14:19:25 UTC
Please describe the problem: When trying to open up any of the tools provided by gnome-system-tools, a dialog box appears saying "platform not supported" Steps to reproduce: 1. Upgrade to Karmic Koala 2. Try opening any of the tools provided by gnome-system tools Actual results: A dialog box pops up saying "platform not supported", and offering the user a choice of other platforms and saying "this might downright cripple your computer" Expected results: The selected tool should open as normal Does this happen every time? Yes Other information:
Had to use Google to find out that Karmic Koala is Ubuntu. What is "opening any of the tools provided by gnome-system tools"? Please provide exact steps. Also note that gnome-system-tools is currently unmaintained. What hardware is this? 32bit, 64 bit?
Any of the appliances provided by gnome-system-tools exhibit this behaviour, such as users and groups anddate and time settings. I'm on x86_64 hardware. This is a pretty serious bug, as with this problem it isn't possible to change passwords / add users etc.
looks like it is fixed in this downstream bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/system-tools-backends/+bug/371234 But g-s-t sure needs some love. I hope I can find some time soon to at least get the obvious patches in
Please note that this was fixed by stripping down a Debian specific patch, I don't think there's something to be forwarded upstream.
Seems this wasn't an upstream issue after all.