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