From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18-5 i686) Description of problem: Here's the 2 line /etc/hosts file containing an error: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost mymachine.ab.hsia.telus.net Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/sbin/internet-druid", line 1400, in ? window = mainDialog('druid') File "/usr/sbin/internet-druid", line 222, in __init__ self.load() File "/usr/sbin/internet-druid", line 243, in load self.loadProfiles() File "/usr/sbin/internet-druid", line 256, in loadProfiles profilelist = getProfileList() File "/usr/sbin/../share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/NCProfileList.py", line 393, in getProfileList PFList.load() File "/usr/sbin/../share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/NCProfileList.py", line 44, in load hoconf = Conf.ConfEHosts() File "/usr/sbin/../share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/Conf.py", line 429, in __init__ Conf.__init__(self, '/etc/hosts') File "/usr/sbin/../share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/Conf.py", line 180, in __init__ self.read() File "/usr/sbin/../share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/Conf.py", line 432, in read self.initvars() File "/usr/sbin/../share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/Conf.py", line 445, in initvars raise BadFile, 'Malformed /etc/hosts file' Conf.BadFile: Malformed /etc/hosts file Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run Network Configuration WIzard from Gnome "System Settings" window 2. 3. Additional info:
fixed in rhpl-CVS file Conf.py, thx
It will also print out a message on the commandline about the file being invalid.
Fixed in 1.1.13-1 - the fix in RHPL is not sufficent.
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