Bug 82297 – firstboot "error occurred in the Date & TIme module"

Bug 82297 - firstboot "error occurred in the Date & TIme module"

Summary:	firstboot "error occurred in the Date & TIme module"

Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 82061

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	firstboot (Show other bugs)
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Version:	9
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Brent Fox
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Reported:	2003-01-20 21:55 EST by Gerry Tool
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:38 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2006-02-21 13:51:16 EST
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Description Gerry Tool 2003-01-20 21:55:31 EST

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030115

Description of problem:
On firstboot, got a message dialog that said "An error has occurred in the Date
& Time module".  Listed traceback and stated I should file a bug against firstboot.

Traceback from file in /root shown in Additional Information below.

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How reproducible:
Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start up Phoebe 2 first time
2.Error dialog appears
3.
    

Actual Results:  Error dialog about Date and Time module appeared

Expected Results:  Normal firststart process

Additional info:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/firstboot/firstbootWindow.py", line 153, in __init__
    vbox, eventbox = module.launch()
  File "/usr/share/firstboot/modules/date.py", line 75, in launch
    self.setupScreen()
  File "/usr/share/firstboot/modules/date.py", line 64, in setupScreen
    self.datePage = date_gui.datePage(self.dateBackend)
  File "/usr/share/redhat-config-date/date_gui.py", line 171, in __init__
    ntpServer = socket.gethostbyaddr(ntpServerIP)[0]
TypeError: gethostbyaddr() argument 1 must be string, not None

Comment 1 louisgtwo 2003-01-20 23:24:31 EST

I got this to after installing from hard drive partition.

Comment 2 petrosyan 2003-01-20 23:29:52 EST

I got that after installing from CDs

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2003-01-20 23:47:22 EST


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 82061 ***

Comment 4 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 13:51:16 EST

Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.

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