[Bug 1260107] Re: trusty version experiences a runtime error due to hwdata changes

[Pierre-Luc Collard]

I managed to start system-config-kickstart. To do this I extracted the
missing file from the suggested hwdata version above.

# cd /tmp
# wget ftp://mirror.ovh.net/mirrors/ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/h/hwdata/hwdata_0.234-1_all.deb
# dpkg --extract hwdata_0.234-1_all.deb hwdata
# cd hwdata/usr/share/hwdata
# cp videodrivers /usr/share/hwdata/
# cp MonitorsDB /usr/share/hwdata/

Then system-config-kickstart started succesfully. I don't know if this
solution will break something else but so far it works!

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Title:
  trusty version experiences a runtime error due to hwdata changes

Status in “system-config-kickstart” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “system-config-kickstart” source package in Trusty:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  The file (/usr/share/hwdata/videodrivers) no longer exists in Trusty,
  subsequently xconfig.py fails because of the following:

      def fill_driver_list(self):
          #add video drivers to list
          try:
              driverFile = open("/usr/share/hwdata/videodrivers", "r")
          except:
              raise RuntimeError, (_("Could not read video driver database"))

  Here's the latest hwdata changelog.

  hwdata (0.249-1) unstable; urgency=low

  
    * latest upstream release from 2013-06-20
      - upstream removed upgradelist, MonitorDB, videodrivers

   -- Noël Köthe <noel at debian.org>  Mon, 12 Aug 2013 14:36:31 +0200

  So something needs to change.

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