Ubuntu doesn't provide /etc/{system,redhat,os}-release but /etc/lsb-release file. Since it's present on any LSB (Linux Standard Base) compliant distributions, it'd better to try to read it. To this end, change read_os_release to receive an additional argument to find the right line - in this case it's "DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION". Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung(a)gmail.com&gt; --- src/report.cpp | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/report.cpp b/src/report.cpp index 6776b30..085e81b 100644 --- a/src/report.cpp +++ b/src/report.cpp @@ -83,12 +83,11 @@ string cpu_model(void) return ""; } -static string read_os_release(const string &filename) +static string read_os_release(const string &filename, const char *pname) { ifstream file; char content[4096]; char *c; - const char *pname = "PRETTY_NAME="; string os(""); file.open(filename.c_str(), ios::in); @@ -160,7 +159,9 @@ static void system_info(void) if (str.length() < 1) str = read_sysfs_string("/etc/redhat-release"); if (str.length() < 1) - str = read_os_release("/etc/os-release"); + str = read_os_release("/etc/os-release", "PRETTY_NAME="); + if (str.length() < 1) + str = read_os_release("/etc/lsb-release", "DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="); if (reporttype) { fprintf(reportout.http_report, "<tr class=\"system_even\"><td>OS Information</td><td>%s</td></tr>\n", -- 1.7.9.2