Bug 83577 - error logged by firstboot while trying gethostbyaddr call.
Summary: error logged by firstboot while trying gethostbyaddr call.
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 82061
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: firstboot
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Brent Fox
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-02-05 19:02 UTC by Richard Ryniker
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-02-21 18:51:37 UTC

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Description Richard Ryniker 2003-02-05 19:02:27 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

Description of problem:
log file:  /root/firstboot.1044331814.39

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:  () argument 1 must be string, not None


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How reproducible:
Didn't try


Additional info:

phoebe beta release.
Installation proceeded satisfactorily after error.
Comment 1 Brent Fox 2003-02-05 19:16:23 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 82061 ***
Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:51:37 UTC 
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.
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