Bug 440292

Summary:	Hard Drives do not display in hwbrowser
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Clyde E. Kunkel <clydekunkel7734>
Component:	kudzu	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	nphilipp, rvokal
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Description Clyde E. Kunkel 2008-04-02 17:26:37 UTC

Description of problem:
Selecting hard drives only leads to blank display areas.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
hwbrowser-0.41-1.fc9.noarch

How reproducible:
every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. select hardware from menu
2. select Hard Drives from hwbrowser left panel
3.
  
Actual results:
blank right panels in hwbrowser

Expected results:
graphical and fdisk like representation of all hard drivers on system in right
panels

Additional info:
working in Fedora 8

Comment 1 Nils Philippsen 2008-04-18 14:25:40 UTC

I've dug a bit around and found that there are changes in /sys which make kudzu
not identify the device name are likely to be the culprit. I'm changing the
component to kudzu.

Some details:

Up to Fedora 8 (kernel 2.6.24.4-64.fc8 FWIW), SCSI block devices have symlinks
like /sys/bus/scsi/devices/0:0:0:0/block:sda which get used by
__getSysfsDevice() to identify the device file (e.g. /dev/sda).

Rawhide/F9 kernels (2.6.25-0.234.rc9.git1.fc9.x86_64 over here) don't have these
symlinks, these kernels do have /sys/bus/scsi/devices/0:0:0:0/block/sda which
could be used to identify the name though -- i.e. __getSysfsDevice() won't find
the related device file name without changes in kudzu.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2008-04-18 14:34:12 UTC

This is why kudzu is deprecated and should not be used any more...