From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 Description of problem: The redhat-config-network crashes before launching itself. I tried uninstalling the rpm and reinstalling, but it did not fix. Below is the crash report- 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 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.2.0-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.go to kde menu -> system settings -> click on Network 2. 3. Actual Results: program crashes and produces a bug report Expected Results: Expected Network configuration gui to show up Additional info: I am using wireless ethernet card to connect to internet
An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in the above bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2003-183.html