System->Administration->anything doesn't work...

[Mike Harding]

To answer my own question:

/usr/local/share/system-tools-backends-2.0/scripts/SystemToolsBackends.pl -m Platform
String found where operator expected
at /usr/local/share/system-tools-backends-2.0/scripts/Utils/Platform.pm
line 77, near ""10" """
        (Missing operator before  ""?)
syntax error
at /usr/local/share/system-tools-backends-2.0/scripts/Utils/Platform.pm
line 77, near ""10" """
Compilation failed in require
at /usr/local/share/system-tools-backends-2.0/scripts/Utils/Backend.pm
line 27.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted
at /usr/local/share/system-tools-backends-2.0/scripts/Utils/Backend.pm
line 27.
Compilation failed in require
at /usr/local/share/system-tools-backends-2.0/scripts/SystemToolsBackends.pl line 40.
...

The error is obvious in context, missing ','.

  "freebsd-8"       => [ "FreeBSD", "8", "" ],
  "freebsd-9"       => [ "FreeBSD", "9", "" ],
  "freebsd-10"      => [ "FreeBSD", "10" "" ], <- Look, Ma, missing
comma
  "gentoo"          => [ "Gentoo Linux", "", "" ],

This has been broken for 3 months!

On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 15:14 -0700, Mike Harding wrote:
> If I try to run anything under this menu in gnome, I get a pop-up that
> says:
> 
> The configuration could not be loaded
> An unknown error occurred.
> 
> The only error I can see is, in /var/log/messages
> 
> Jun 22 15:12:56 bsd dbus[1886]: [system] Activating service
> name='org.freedesktop.SystemToolsBackends.Platform' (using
> servicehelper)
> Jun 22 15:12:56 bsd dbus[1886]: [system] Activated service
> 'org.freedesktop.SystemToolsBackends.Platform' failed: Launch helper
> exited with unknown return code 255
> 
> This error repeats every time I try to run one of the programs.
> 
> Any ideas?  This is a fairly fresh install (I lost my main hard drive
> last week and reinstalled everything) and if I create a new user the
> same thing happens with that user...
> 
> - Mike H.
> 
> 
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