From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: Exception in EthernetHardwareDruid.py due to missing description of the defxx ethernet device in /boot/module-info. [root@desk root]# diff -c /boot/module-info-2.4.18-17.7.x /boot/module-info-2.4.18-18.7.x *** /boot/module-info-2.4.18-17.7.x Mon Nov 11 21:04:46 2002 --- /boot/module-info-2.4.18-18.7.x Wed Nov 13 19:35:02 2002 *************** *** 162,168 **** defxx eth - "EthernetHardwareDruid.py exception if this string is missing" depca eth --- 162,167 ---- [root@desk root]# locate EthernetHardwareDruid /usr/share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/EthernetHardwareDruid.pyc /usr/share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/EthernetHardwareDruid.glade /usr/share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/EthernetHardwareDruid.py /usr/share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/EthernetHardwareDruid.pyc [root@desk root]# rpm -qf /usr/share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/EthernetHardwareDruid.pyc file /usr/share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/EthernetHardwareDruid.pyc is not owned by any package [root@desk root]# rpm -qf /usr/share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/EthernetHardwareDruid.py redhat-config-network-1.0.0-1 [root@desk root]# rpm -qf /boot/module-info-2.4.18-18.7.x kernel-2.4.18-18.7.x [root@desk root]# Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install everything (all packages...) 2.Install all latest packages from errata 3.Run "neat" and try to configure ethernet. Actual Results: An exception until I debugged it and edited /boot/module-info. Expected Results: I expected to see the list of ethernet devices. Additional info: Better fix is modify the EthernetHardwareDruid.py to handle the exception when there is no description for an ethernet device type.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 76446 ***
third beta of erratum for 7.3/7.2/AS2 is available at: ftp://people.redhat.com/harald/redhat-config-network/1.0.3-1/ Most of the bugs reported have been removed, but as in every software change, there could be new bugs introduced. Please report bugs against this with explicitly stating the 1.0.3 version... Thx and please test.