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Description of problem:
I launched neat to set-up my network devices - airo on eth1, static IP on boot
and 3c503 on eth0, not configured.

I added both hardware devices in the order above and then added a network
profile for the airo. At this point things went wrong and neat started to crash.

I believe all the following crashes are due to me configuring eth1 before eth0.
Although I specified eth1 for the first device and this got set-up correctly in
modules.conf, the kernel loaded the driver and assigned the device eth0 (since
it was the first ethernet device seen). Since I have no network config for eth0,
when the network scripts set-up what they think is eth1 on boot, the kernel
again loads the first network driver it sees and assigns it eth0.

Crash outputs follow:

1) initial crash (I think when removing eth0 device to try to fix the issue above):

Component: redhat-config-network
Version: 1.1.86
Summary: TB
/usr/sbin/../share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/maindialog.py:1386:on_hardwareDeleteButton_clicked:
IndexError: list index out of range

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/../share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/maindialog.py",
line 539, in on_deleteButton_clicked
    self.deleteButtonFunc[self.active_page](button)
  File "/usr/sbin/../share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/maindialog.py",
line 1386, in on_hardwareDeleteButton_clicked
    page = clist.selection[0])
IndexError: list index out of range

Local variables in innermost frame:
buttons: -8
clist: <gtk.CList object (GtkCList) at 0x85cd0fc>
description: 3Com EtherLink II
type: Ethernet
self: <netconfpkg.gui.maindialog.mainDialog instance at 0x854bad4>
args: (<gtk.Button object (GtkButton) at 0x85c8cf4>,)
hardwarelist: []
hw: <netconfpkg.NCHWEthernet.HwEthernet instance at 0x866989c>
dev: eth1

2) subsequent crash (I believe when activating eth1 after removal of eth0 above
failed):

Component: redhat-config-network
Version: 1.1.86
Summary: TB
/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rhpl/executil.py:216:gtkExecWithCaptureStatus:
TypeError: len() of unsized object

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/../share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/maindialog.py",
line 734, in on_deviceActivateButton_clicked
    (status, txt) = intf.activate(device)
  File "/usr/sbin/../share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/Control.py", line
107, in activate
    return gtkExecWithCaptureStatus(command, [command, device])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rhpl/executil.py", line 216, in
gtkExecWithCaptureStatus
    if len(catchfd):
TypeError: len() of unsized object

Local variables in innermost frame:
gtk: <module 'gtk' from '/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.pyc'>
catchfd: 1
searchPath: 0
read: 13
stdin: 0
argv: ['/sbin/ifup', 'eth1']
write: 14
command: /sbin/ifup
closefd: -1
root: /
childpid: 0

3) repeated crash every time neat is invoked now - before GUI appears:

Component: redhat-config-network
Version: 1.1.86
Summary: TB
/usr/sbin/../share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/NCDevWireless.py:32:load:
NameError: global name 'ConfDevice' is not defined

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/neat", line 98, in ?
    window = mainDialog()
  File "/usr/sbin/../share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/maindialog.py",
line 154, in __init__
    self.load()
  File "/usr/sbin/../share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/maindialog.py",
line 226, in load
    self.loadDevices()
  File "/usr/sbin/../share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/maindialog.py",
line 233, in loadDevices
    devicelist = getDeviceList()
  File "/usr/sbin/../share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/NCDeviceList.py",
line 163, in getDeviceList
    DVList.load()
  File "/usr/sbin/../share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/NCDeviceList.py",
line 70, in load
    newdev.load(dev)
  File "/usr/sbin/../share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/NCDevWireless.py",
line 32, in load
    conf = ConfDevice(name)
NameError: global name 'ConfDevice' is not defined

Local variables in innermost frame:
self: <netconfpkg.NCDevWireless.DevWireless instance at 0x827e3b4>
name: eth1

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
I cannot reproduce the initial behaviour as I can no longer start neat successfully.

The latest crash is easily reproducable though:

1. run "neat" as root

Additional info:

Opened as high since neat is now unusable.