From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461) Description of problem: hwbrowser fails to load and reports the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/hwbrowser/DeviceList.py", line 163, in ? setup_ui () File "/usr/share/hwbrowser/DeviceList.py", line 156, in setup_ui DeviceDisk.initialize (xml, hardware) File "/usr/share/hwbrowser/DeviceDisk.py", line 485, in initialize populate (tree_view, disks, graph) File "/usr/share/hwbrowser/DeviceDisk.py", line 379, in populate raise RuntimeError, ("can't handle more than " RuntimeError: can't handle more than one extended partition per disk Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Open terminal 2.run hwbroswer It reports: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/hwbrowser/DeviceList.py", line 163, in ? setup_ui () File "/usr/share/hwbrowser/DeviceList.py", line 156, in setup_ui DeviceDisk.initialize (xml, hardware) File "/usr/share/hwbrowser/DeviceDisk.py", line 485, in initialize populate (tree_view, disks, graph) File "/usr/share/hwbrowser/DeviceDisk.py", line 379, in populate raise RuntimeError, ("can't handle more than " RuntimeError: can't handle more than one extended partition per disk Actual Results: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/hwbrowser/DeviceList.py", line 163, in ? setup_ui () File "/usr/share/hwbrowser/DeviceList.py", line 156, in setup_ui DeviceDisk.initialize (xml, hardware) File "/usr/share/hwbrowser/DeviceDisk.py", line 485, in initialize populate (tree_view, disks, graph) File "/usr/share/hwbrowser/DeviceDisk.py", line 379, in populate raise RuntimeError, ("can't handle more than " RuntimeError: can't handle more than one extended partition per disk Expected Results: For it to start up. Additional info:
Fixed in the latest version.
i just downloaded the alleged rawhide version of hwbrowser through rpmfind.net, and it still generates numerous python tracebacks. is there some other trick to this?
Created attachment 76145 [details] output from rawhide version of hwbrowser
"the latest version" probably means the one that will ship with 8.0, and it may not be publicly available before then, though you could try up2date/the null channel on the rhn website; some packages there are more recent than those in the public version of rawhide.