Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 76666
Hardware browser dies immediately it is launched
Last modified: 2013-04-02 00:17:04 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: A small panel pops up saying that the collection of data may take a few minutes followed by the browser window flashing up for a fragment of a second. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.By using the menu shortcut within system tools. 2.By running the command hwbrowser. 3.By reinstalling the rpm file hwbrowser*.rpm and then executing either command line or shortcut. Actual Results: A small panel briefly flashes up about taking a few minutes to collect data then the hwbrowser momentarily flashes up on the screen. Expected Results: The hardware browser should launch and show me my hardware. Additional info: This happens only on my athlon kit on machines freshly installed or upgraded from 7.3. All other machines freshly installed or upgraded from 7.2 are OK.
Output from active string as follows:- (DeviceList.py:1693): GnomeCanvas-CRITICAL **: file gnome-canvas-path-def.c: line 1142 (gnome_canvas_path_def_any_closed): assertion `path != NULL' failed (DeviceList.py:1693): GnomeCanvas-CRITICAL **: file gnome-canvas-path-def.c: line 1142 (gnome_canvas_path_def_any_closed): assertion `path != NULL' failed (DeviceList.py:1693): GnomeCanvas-CRITICAL **: file gnome-canvas-path-def.c: line 1142 (gnome_canvas_path_def_any_closed): assertion `path != NULL' failed (DeviceList.py:1693): GnomeCanvas-CRITICAL **: file gnome-canvas-path-def.c: line 1142 (gnome_canvas_path_def_any_closed): assertion `path != NULL' failed (DeviceList.py:1693): GnomeCanvas-CRITICAL **: file gnome-canvas-path-def.c: line 1142 (gnome_canvas_path_def_any_closed): assertion `path != NULL' failed (DeviceList.py:1693): GnomeCanvas-CRITICAL **: file gnome-canvas-path-def.c: line 1142 (gnome_canvas_path_def_any_closed): assertion `path != NULL' failed (DeviceList.py:1693): GnomeCanvas-CRITICAL **: file gnome-canvas-path-def.c: line 1142 (gnome_canvas_path_def_any_closed): assertion `path != NULL' failed (DeviceList.py:1693): GnomeCanvas-CRITICAL **: file gnome-canvas-path-def.c: line 1142 (gnome_canvas_path_def_any_closed): assertion `path != NULL' failed (DeviceList.py:1693): GnomeCanvas-CRITICAL **: file gnome-canvas-path-def.c: line 1142 (gnome_canvas_path_def_any_closed): assertion `path != NULL' failed (DeviceList.py:1693): GnomeCanvas-CRITICAL **: file gnome-canvas-path-def.c: line 1142 (gnome_canvas_path_def_any_closed): assertion `path != NULL' failed (DeviceList.py:1693): GnomeCanvas-CRITICAL **: file gnome-canvas-path-def.c: line 1142 (gnome_canvas_path_def_any_closed): assertion `path != NULL' failed Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/hwbrowser/DeviceList.py", line 203, in ? reread_device_type_list () File "/usr/share/hwbrowser/DeviceList.py", line 150, in reread_device_type_list list.set (iter, 0, hardware.get_category_string (key), 1, key) File "/usr/share/hwbrowser/DeviceList.py", line 91, in get_category_string return self.type_mapping[key] KeyError: 20
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 74956 ***