Bug 81627

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021022

Description of problem:
Upon running hwbrowser, a window briefly displays, before disappearing and a
Python error message is printed to standard output/error.

This bug sounds exactly like
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61917 except it affects Phoebe.

Incidentally, this system (Toshiba Satellite 3000 laptop) has fancy hardware
such as wireless, firewire, usb, smartmedia, pcmcia cards etc etc.

Additional information contains the text/message that was printed to stderr/stdout.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run hwbrowser
2.
3.
    

Actual Results:  After a few seconds, a windows appears, then disappear followed
by a crash.

Expected Results:  hwbrowser shouldn't crash and should display useful information.

Additional info:

[root@localhost root]# hwbrowser                                               
                                                                           
Traceback (most recent call last):                                             
                                                                             
File "/usr/share/hwbrowser/DeviceList.py", line 203, in ?                      
                                                                             
reread_device_type_list ()                                                     
                                                                          File
"/usr/share/hwbrowser/DeviceList.py", line 150, in reread_device_type_list     
                                                                        
list.set (iter, 0, hardware.get_category_string (key), 1, key)                 
                                                                          File
"/usr/share/hwbrowser/DeviceList.py", line 91, in get_category_string          
                                                                         return
self.type_mapping[key]                                                         
                                                                 KeyError: 20