Bug 500551 - After the update to Plasma 6.3.1, /etc/os-release has multiple PRETTY_NAME lines
Summary: After the update to Plasma 6.3.1, /etc/os-release has multiple PRETTY_NAME l...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: neon
Classification: KDE Neon
Component: general (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: unspecified
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Neon Bugs
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Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2025-02-21 21:44 UTC by Clay Weber
Modified: 2025-02-23 22:26 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Clay Weber 2025-02-21 21:44:03 UTC 
Created attachment 178712 [details]
System Information page in System Settings

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After the update to Plasma 6.3.1,  /etc/os-release has multiple PRETTY_NAME lines. Kinfocenter and other utilities report the OS as "Ubuntu 24.04.2" instead of "KDE neon"
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SUMMARY

Looking at /etc/os-release, the PRETTY_NAME line was not edited or replaced, but an extra line was inserted


$ cat /etc/os-release 
PRETTY_NAME="KDE neon 6.3"
NAME="KDE neon"
VERSION_ID="24.04"
VERSION="6.3"
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION_ID="24.04"
VERSION="24.04.2 LTS (Noble Numbat)"
VERSION_CODENAME=noble
ID=neon
ID_LIKE="ubuntu debian"
HOME_URL="https://neon.kde.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://neon.kde.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.kde.org/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://kde.org/privacypolicy/"
UBUNTU_CODENAME=noble
Comment 1 rrpeak+kdebug 2025-02-21 23:17:24 UTC 
Can confirm. see this thread https://discuss.kde.org/t/after-updating-today-neon-suddenly-says-its-ubuntu/30489