Running with Python 2.5 can cause a crash, because "linux_distribution" was not available before Python 2.6: http://docs.python.org/library/platform.html?highlight=linux_distribution#platform.linux_distribution INFO Passed: 2 INFO Failed: 2 INFO Skipped: 0 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/mozmill", line 8, in <module> load_entry_point('mozmill==1.5.1', 'console_scripts', 'mozmill')() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mozmill/__init__.py", line 811, in cli CLI().run() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mozmill/__init__.py", line 776, in run self.mozmill.report(self.options.report) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mozmill/__init__.py", line 473, in report results = self.get_report() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mozmill/__init__.py", line 418, in get_report report['system_info'] = self.get_platform_information() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mozmill/__init__.py", line 364, in get_platform_information (distro, version, codename) = platform.linux_distribution() AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'linux_distribution'

My fault when I have implemented bug 562822. We still support Python 2.5, and I have simply taken it over from Heather's template.

I think this can be easily solved by changing platform.linux_distribution() to platform.dist(). Taking.

As mentioned lets use the old but deprecated version. Should be fine at least until we support Python 3.

Comment on attachment 495981 [details] [diff] [review] Patch v1 Works for me here. I haven't tested on all python versions. For 2.0, I'd like to see this as part of the mozinfo package (bug 606524)

Landed on hotfix-1.5.2 as: https://github.com/mozautomation/mozmill/commit/e0f995a10150d64f78dfff937b59279bbc2ff5b4

> Works for me here. I haven't tested on all python versions. For 2.0, I'd like > to see this as part of the mozinfo package (bug 606524) There is a lot more stuff to do for a final implementation. This patch simply updates the code inside of info.py to make sure we do not fail.

Landed on master: https://github.com/mozautomation/mozmill/commit/4c155534445c306fa144d5e6e1b95b211a429b04

Aleksej, could you please verify that it now works? We have pushed Mozmill 1.5.2 RC2 today to pypi, so a "pip install --upgrade mozmill" should update you to that version. Thanks.

Verified fixed. Thanks.