Bug 433849 (TB1fe56f53)

Created attachment 295549 [details]
the dump from the system-config-network exception

looks like the hostname is missing on one of your lines.

error: Error while parsing /etc/hosts:
Wrong Hostname on line 61

This problem should be fixed in rawhide.

Care to betatest?
http://people.fedoraproject.org/~harald/downloads/system-config-network/1.5.90/

I ran system-config-network to verify that it still blows up (was 1.4.7),
then I installed system-config-network-1.5.90-1.fc8.noarch.rpm and
system-config-network-tui-1.5.90-1.fc8.noarch.rpm
and ran it again, and it still blows up :-(.

The saved crash file is much smaller this time, so I'm just including it inline
here:

Component: system-config-network
Version: 1.5.90
Summary: TB8cec5205 NC_functions.py:240:testHostname:TypeError: object of type
'NoneType' has no len()

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/system-config-network-gui", line 166, in runit
    window = mainDialog() # pylint: disable-msg=W0612
  File "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/maindialog.py", line
296, in __init__
    self.load()
  File "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/maindialog.py", line
322, in load
    self.loadProfiles()
  File "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/maindialog.py", line
338, in loadProfiles
    profilelist = getProfileList()
  File "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/NCProfileList.py", line 657,
in getProfileList
    __PFList.load()
  File "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/NCProfileList.py", line 90,
in load
    self.loadprof(pr, profdir)
  File "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/NCProfileList.py", line 140,
in loadprof
    prof.HostsList.load(filename = profdir + '/hosts')
  File "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/NCHostsList.py", line 97, in
load
    entry.test()
  File "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/NCHost.py", line 47, in test
    if not self.testHostname():
  File "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/NCHost.py", line 42, in
testHostname
    return testHostname(self.Hostname)
  File "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/NC_functions.py", line 240,
in testHostname
    if (len(hostname) - hostname.count('.')) < 256:
TypeError: object of type 'NoneType' has no len()

Local variables in innermost frame:
hostname: None

I tend to suspect the code is going all anal retentive and barfing on hostnames
that contain underscore characters (which are in theory illegal, but have
always worked anyway :-). It would probably be better to simply eliminate
the hostname tab if the hosts file is illegal rather than crashing the
whole app.

Next version, hopefully better...
http://people.fedoraproject.org/~harald/downloads/system-config-network/1.5.91/

Better, no crash this time, but I do get a popup of wrong hostname
messages way too big to fit on my screen :-). Perhaps a scrolled text
area for the wrong name messages would be in order.

I'll attach the (partial) screenshot of the popup.

Created attachment 299453 [details]
screenshot of error popup

I do't know if there were any buttons on the bottom or not :-).

rofl :-) ok... seems like your /etc/hosts is a little bit longer than the
average :-)

Created attachment 301454 [details]
system-config-network problem file

system-config-network-1.5.5-1.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8

system-config-network-1.5.5-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update system-config-network'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-2995

system-config-network-1.5.5-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.