Description of problem: system-config-network will crash upon startup on one of my 4 Fedora 8 machines. S-C-N works nominally on the other 3 machines. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.5.5-1.fc8 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Type in "system-config-network" sans quotes at command prompt in X windows or in a terminal window 2.attempts to start, but then... 3. crashes with the following error message. Actual results: S-C-N barfs with this message: Error in sys.excepthook: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/system-config-network-tui", line 120, in <lambda> PRG_NAME, PRG_VERSION) File "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/exception.py", line 332, in handleException import gtk File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 79, in <module> _init() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 67, in _init _gtk.init_check() RuntimeError: could not open display Original exception was: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/system-config-network-tui", line 281, in <module> loadConfig(screen) File "/usr/sbin/system-config-network-tui", line 137, in loadConfig hardwarelist = getHardwareList() File "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/NCHardwareList.py", line 759, in getHardwareList __HWList.load() File "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/NCHardwareList.py", line 603, in load self.updateFromSystem() File "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/NCHardwareList.py", line 483, in updateFromSystem self.updateFromHal(hdellist) File "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/NCHardwareList.py", line 447, in updateFromHal hal = NCBackendHal.NCBackendHal() File "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/NCBackendHal.py", line 31, in __init__ self.halManagerObj = self._dbusBus.get_object ("org.freedesktop.Hal", "/org/freedesktop/Hal/Manager") File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 240, in get_object follow_name_owner_changes=follow_name_owner_changes) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 236, in __init__ self._named_service = conn.activate_name_owner(bus_name) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 179, in activate_name_owner self.start_service_by_name(bus_name) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 277, in start_service_by_name 'su', (bus_name, flags))) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 603, in call_blocking message, timeout) dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Hal was not provided by any .service files Expected results: For it to start normally. Additional info: None. First time I've ever seen this happen.
seems like haldaemon is not started on your system what is the output of: # service haldaemon status
Hello Harald, Nope, the HAL daemon is not turned on; I didn't realize this required it. OK, so, can we do two things: 1. Close this ticket 2. Have a friendlier message than this? Thank you! Gilbert
Still the case on Fedora 9. Should be noted that minimal install %packages --nobase yum produces a system with s-c-n but without hal
Found this bug while filing a comment on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450510. I am experiencing the error in 450510. It is somewhat similar to the exception filed in this one, except I am in F9. HAL Daemon was not running. Firing it up, still didn't allow SCN to start.
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