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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020501

Description of problem:
Hardware Browser crashes on Startup with thefollowing output:

Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/share/hwbrowser/DeviceList.py", line 158, in ?
    setup_ui ()
  File "/usr/share/hwbrowser/DeviceList.py", line 151, in setup_ui
    DeviceDisk.initialize (xml, hardware)
  File "/usr/share/hwbrowser/DeviceDisk.py", line 398, in initialize
    disk = parted.PedDevice.get ('/dev/' + device.kudzu_device.device)
TypeError: illegal argument type for built-in operation


Disk Partitions:

Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4462 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *         1         8     64228+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2             9       204   1574370   82  Linux swap
/dev/sda3           205       400   1574370   82  Linux swap
/dev/sda4           401      4462  32628015    5  Extended
/dev/sda5           401       661   2096451   83  Linux
/dev/sda6           662       726    522081   83  Linux
/dev/sda7           727       791    522081   83  Linux
/dev/sda8           792      1185   3164773+  83  Linux
/dev/sda9          1186      1218    265041   83  Linux
/dev/sda10         1219      4462  26057398+  83  Linux



lilo.conf:

prompt
timeout=50
default=linux
boot=/dev/sda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
message=/boot/message
linear

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.9-e.5smp
	label=linux
	initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.9-e.5smp.img
	read-only
	root=/dev/sda6
	append="hda=ide-scsi"

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.9-e.5
	label=linux-up
	initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.9-e.5.img
	read-only
	root=/dev/sda6


modules.conf:

alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias eth0 eepro100
alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx 
alias usb-controller usb-ohci
options ide-cd ignore=hdc
pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
hwbrowser-0.3.5-2

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Type hwbrowser on command line.
2.
3.
    

Actual Results:  Hardware browser crashes during device probe.

Expected Results:  Hardware Browser application should start, probe hardware and
display results

Additional info:

/var/log/messages:

Mar 25 20:49:00 VHAISPORAX1 kernel: 0x378: FIFO is 16 bytes
Mar 25 20:49:00 VHAISPORAX1 kernel: 0x378: writeIntrThreshold is 8
Mar 25 20:49:00 VHAISPORAX1 kernel: 0x378: readIntrThreshold is 8
Mar 25 20:49:00 VHAISPORAX1 kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778)
[PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EPP,ECP]
Mar 25 20:49:00 VHAISPORAX1 kernel: parport0: irq 7 detected
Mar 25 20:51:36 VHAISPORAX1 gconfd (root-1334): 2 items remain in the cache
after cleaning already-synced items older than 300 seconds