/usr/lib/update-notifier/list-oem-metapackages:AttributeError:/usr/lib/update-notifier/list-oem-metapackages@56:write_oem_metapackage_list

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The Ubuntu Error Tracker has been receiving reports about a problem regarding update-notifier. This problem was most recently seen with package version 3.192.30.6, the problem page at https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/c2e8b22b73ac6059a1edcf9b51801216a7810ab0 contains more details, including versions of packages affected, stacktrace or traceback, and individual crash reports.
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[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Here's the traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/update-notifier/list-oem-metapackages", line 56, in <module>
    write_oem_metapackage_list(cache, STAMP_FILE)
  File "/usr/lib/update-notifier/list-oem-metapackages", line 29, in write_oem_metapackage_list
    packages = UbuntuDrivers.detect.system_device_specific_metapackages(
AttributeError: module 'UbuntuDrivers.detect' has no attribute 'system_device_specific_metapackages'

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Looking at a bunch of the crash reports in the Error Tracker none of them have ubuntu-drivers-common listed in their Dependencies but if that were the case the should be a "ModuleNotFoundError". So that's weird.

Some of the crashes are Bionic users with the Focal version of update-notifier and the crash could happen there if they had ubuntu-drivers-common version 1:0.5.2 (from the release pocket) installed. However, that's not something we can fix.

The crashes where the system is running 20.04 LTS and they get this Traceback, I've no idea what's going on as the version of ubuntu-drivers-common in the release pocket has the attribute 'system_device_specific_metapackages".

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I just noticed that ubuntu-drivers-common for Bionic has stopped phasing which means users wouldn't have the version with the attribute 'system_device_specific_metapackages' available but ... there's no version of update-notifier for Bionic which has list-oem-metapackages.