Ubuntu
system-config-kickstart package

Fails to start

Bug #6333 reported by Chris Peterman
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
system-config-kickstart (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Colin Watson

Bug Description

Fails to start at all in Dapper. The output from when I tried to launch it in a terminal follows

<< Begin Output >>
kyral@PacificNebula:~$ system-config-kickstart
/usr/lib/python2.4/whrandom.py:38: DeprecationWarning: the whrandom module is deprecated; please use the random module
  DeprecationWarning)
/home/kyral/.themes/Milke 2.3/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:17: Unable to find include file: "icons/iconrc"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/system-config-kickstart/system-config-kickstart.py", line 82, in ?
    kickstartGui.kickstartGui(file)
  File "/usr/share/system-config-kickstart/kickstartGui.py", line 131, in __init__
    self.X_class = xconfig.xconfig(xml, self.kickstartData)
  File "/usr/share/system-config-kickstart/xconfig.py", line 70, in __init__
    self.fill_card_list()
  File "/usr/share/system-config-kickstart/xconfig.py", line 105, in fill_card_list
    raise RuntimeError, (_("Could not read video card database"))
NameError: global name '_' is not defined

<< End Output >>

Ignore the error about the GTK Theme, thats an error in my theme and is harmless,

Revision history for this message
Scott Henson (scotth) wrote :

This is a bug in hwdata not having /usr/share/hwdata/Cards. It was in the breezy version(0.159) but not in the dapper version(0.172).

Revision history for this message
Scott Henson (scotth) wrote :

After closer inspection, it seems that its a bug in system-config-kickstart that was caused by an upgrade of hwdata. system-config-kickstart will need to be upgraded to 2.6.2(its in the devel branch of fedora core) to work. I'm going to reassign to system-config-kickstart.

Colin Watson (cjwatson)
Changed in system-config-kickstart:
assignee: nobody → kamion
Revision history for this message
Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

Thanks for the analysis on this bug.

system-config-kickstart (2.5.20-0ubuntu12) dapper; urgency=low

  * Backport from upstream, since Kickstart syntax has changed somewhat and
    it's getting a bit late to make significant changes to our Kickstart
    support for Dapper at this stage:
    - Fixed string translation problems.
    - Use random module instead of whrandom.
    - Deal with drivers instead of cards due to kudzu changes (closes:
      Malone #6333).
  * Fix import of Kickstart files containing 'rootpw --disabled' or 'user
    --disabled' (closes: Malone #15155).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Fri, 27 Jan 2006 16:47:54 +0000

Changed in system-config-kickstart:
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Released
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