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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210

Description of problem:
the hwbrowser graphics starts up but ends abruptly after invoking 'hwbrowser' as
root


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
hwbrowser-0.6-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. su -
2. hwbrowser
3. ---pooof--- gone
    

Actual Results:  the program exited w/o an error message

Expected Results:  list all the hardware in a GUI.
my cutomized grey-wht color scheme or default 'blue-curve' has the same effect.


Additional info:


(DeviceList.py:3062): GnomeCanvas-CRITICAL **: file gnome-canvas-path-def.c:
line 1142 (gnome_canvas_path_def_any_closed): assertion `path != NULL' failed

(DeviceList.py:3062): GnomeCanvas-CRITICAL **: file gnome-canvas-path-def.c:
line 1142 (gnome_canvas_path_def_any_closed): assertion `path != NULL' failed

(DeviceList.py:3062): 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
[root@w4 root]# hwbrowser