Bug 421261

Summary: crash on startup: 'module' object has no attribute 'arch
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Sebastian Vahl <fedora>
Component: system-config-displayAssignee: Adam Jackson <ajax>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: jik, mcepl, rdieter, xgl-maint
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Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
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Description Sebastian Vahl 2007-12-12 12:08:04 UTC
Description of problem:
system-config-display crashs on startup with following output:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xconf.py", line 294, in <module>
    vc = rhpxl.videocard.VideoCardInfo()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rhpxl/videocard.py", line 149, in 
__init__
    elif rhpl.arch.getCanonArch() == "ppc64pseries":
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'arch



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
system-config-display-1.0.51-4.fc8

How reproducible:
ever

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start system-config-display from a terminal
2. watch output
  
Actual results:
app is crashing

Expected results:
app is working

Additional info:
I've set priority to "high" because this is one of my (personal) blockers for 
releasing the fedora kde4 livecd.

Comment 1 Matěj Cepl 2007-12-12 17:50:42 UTC
What's the architecture of the computer in question? Is it really i386 or ppc64?

Comment 2 Sebastian Vahl 2007-12-12 17:56:19 UTC
It's i386. (That's why I set the hardware tab to it).

Comment 3 Sebastian Vahl 2007-12-12 18:10:19 UTC
smolt profile: 
http://www.smolts.org/show?UUID=d52e288e-d14f-4568-b13e-5fe04a274686

Comment 4 antonio montagnani 2007-12-13 07:32:36 UTC
http://www.smolts.org/show?UUID=f695c0e1-a900-49cf-863b-360d139002b1

same here

Comment 5 Jeremy Katz 2007-12-17 20:10:05 UTC
Fixed up for rhpxl-0.49-3.

Comment 6 Thorsten Scherf 2007-12-18 13:00:27 UTC
works with rhpxl-0.49-3


Comment 7 Sebastian Vahl 2007-12-18 21:11:00 UTC
(In reply to comment #6)
> works with rhpxl-0.49-3

confirmed



Comment 8 Adam Jackson 2008-02-11 18:44:26 UTC
Closing.