Bug 99453
| Summary: | redhat-config-network crashes on startup | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | gloin <stomcrow> |
| Component: | redhat-config-network | Assignee: | Harald Hoyer <harald> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-06-04 10:04:57 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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please try the update from: http://people.redhat.com/harald/redhat-config-network/ Closing due to inactivity. Reopen, if the problem is still existing. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: While choosing network from the system settings option , after prompting for root passwd , the gui simply says exception occured and dumps the traceback While running neat from the command line , some error msg is dumped on the xterm before opening the gui with the traceback log Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.2.0-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start->System Settings->Network 2.From the command line , type neat 3. Actual Results: Component: redhat-config-network Version: 1.2.0 Summary: TB /usr/src/build/228093-i386/install/usr/lib/python2.2/sre.py:137:search:TypeError: expected string or buffer Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/redhat-config-network-gui", line 154, in ? window = mainDialog() File "/usr/src/build/226257-noarch/install/usr/share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/maindialog.py", line 154, in __init__ File "/usr/src/build/226257-noarch/install/usr/share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/maindialog.py", line 225, in load File "/usr/src/build/226257-noarch/install/usr/share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/maindialog.py", line 232, in loadDevices File "/usr/src/build/226257-noarch/install/usr/share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/NCDeviceList.py", line 210, in getDeviceList File "/usr/src/build/226257-noarch/install/usr/share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/NCDeviceList.py", line 117, in load File "/usr/src/build/226257-noarch/install/usr/share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/plugins/NCDevWireless.py", line 34, in load File "/usr/src/build/226257-noarch/install/usr/share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/NCWireless.py", line 52, in load File "/usr/src/build/228093-i386/install/usr/lib/python2.2/sre.py", line 137, in search return _compile(pattern, flags).search(string) TypeError: expected string or buffer Expected Results: gui should appear with details of eth0 ,eth1 etc Additional info: this is the error message that appears on the command line GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed. Copying ifcfg-eth1 to devices and putting it into the default profile. redhat-config-network worked fine up until after i installed my wireless card. these are the things i've done - *copied the <driver>.o file to /lib/modules/2.4.20-18.9/kernel/drivers/net/pcmcia/ *created an ifcfg-eth1 file in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ with the foll entries : DEVICE=eth1 BOOTPROTO=dhcp ONBOOT=no MODE=auto ESSID=any *i am able to connect to the internet with my wireless card