Comment 45 for bug 1094218

Can someone explain why post #43 would fix the problem? Specifically:
1) What is the reason for commenting out "lsb_release -a"
2) When I run the "lsb_release -ds" command from the command line, I get the same output as the cat ... sommand substituted above, namely "Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS". Yet I have the same crash.

Before I go changing something, I'd like to know why.

FYI:
$ which lsb_release
/usr/bin/lsb_release

$ head /usr/bin/lsb_release
#!/usr/bin/python -Es

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise

$ lsb_release -ds
Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS

Thanks much.