Hardware Information does not work.

exploder · Post by **exploder** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 9:25 pm

Does anyone know how to get "Hardware Information" working in LinuxMint? I clicked on the shortcut in the menu and it brings up a blank page and then goes away. I tried doing the same thing from the Live CD with the same result.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

exploder · Post by **exploder** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 10:57 pm

Tested on another system, same thing. Hardware Information is not working...

Anyone?

exploder · Post by **exploder** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 11:21 pm

This is the output I get from the terminal when I try and launch hal-device-manager.

~$ sudo hal-device-manager
<gtk.Menu object (GtkMenu) at 0x8436734>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/hal/device-manager/DeviceManager.py", line 132, in on_device_tree_selection_changed
self.update_device_notebook(device)
File "/usr/share/hal/device-manager/DeviceManager.py", line 508, in update_device_notebook
self.update_tab_device(device)
File "/usr/share/hal/device-manager/DeviceManager.py", line 316, in update_tab_device
d = self.udi_to_device(d.properties["info.parent"])
KeyError: 'info.parent'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/hal-device-manager", line 20, in <module>
DeviceManager()
File "/usr/share/hal/device-manager/DeviceManager.py", line 97, in __init__
self.update_device_list()
File "/usr/share/hal/device-manager/DeviceManager.py", line 247, in update_device_list
self.update_device_notebook(self.virtual_root.children[0])
File "/usr/share/hal/device-manager/DeviceManager.py", line 508, in update_device_notebook
self.update_tab_device(device)
File "/usr/share/hal/device-manager/DeviceManager.py", line 316, in update_tab_device
d = self.udi_to_device(d.properties["info.parent"])
KeyError: 'info.parent'

exploder · Post by **exploder** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 11:48 pm

Problem solved! I updated hal from the backports repository. When I updated hal, hal-info was installed with it. Now "hardware Information" is working!