Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 156018
Config crashes after saving new config
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:04 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050111 Description of problem: On saving, after making changes to network properties, the program crashes. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): system-config-network-1.3.22-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Change any variable. 2. Hit file > save 3. Bug report generated Actual Results: Bug report tool popped up with a load of text Expected Results: It should have saved the new configuration to file, and allowed me to do what i wanted to next. Instead i have to start a new instance. Additional info: Component: system-config-network Version: 1.3.22 Summary: TB6b0acea6 sre.py:230:_compile:error: multiple repeat Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/src/build/473077-noarch/install/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/maindialog.py", line 794, in on_applyButton_clicked File "/usr/src/build/473077-noarch/install/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/maindialog.py", line 371, in save File "/usr/src/build/473077-noarch/install/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/maindialog.py", line 403, in saveProfiles File "/usr/src/build/473077-noarch/install/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/NCProfileList.py", line 376, in save File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rhpl/Conf.py", line 574, in __setitem__ while self.findnextline('^\S*' + '[' + \ File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rhpl/Conf.py", line 199, in findnextline elif re.search(regexp, self.lines[self.line]): File "/usr/lib/python2.3/sre.py", line 137, in search return _compile(pattern, flags).search(string) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/sre.py", line 230, in _compile raise error, v # invalid expression error: multiple repeat Local variables in innermost frame: cachekey: (<type 'str'>, '^\\S*[\t ]+*.fastclick.net', 0) pattern: ^\S*[ ]+*.fastclick.net p: None flags: 0 key: ('^\\S*[\t ]+*.fastclick.net', 0) v: multiple repeat
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Bug only presents if a * (wildcard) is found in /etc/hosts. After a lot of messing about and rediscovering the bug on Fedoras 4 and 5, i discovered if i removed the wildcard entries */ the bug disappeared. Whether it is possible to patch the program to come up with a response along the lines of character x was found in /etc/hosts and is not allowed, is unknown, but due to the fact it isnt the most serious bug ever i'd say not to bother. Thanks all