Why does system-config-network crash on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • system-config-network crashes with the below stack trace:

    Component: system-config-network 
Version: 1.3.99.12 
Summary: TB0a0f70ae maindialog.py:602:hydrateProfiles:TypeError: sequence item not a string or unicode object 

Traceback (most recent call last): 
  File "/usr/sbin/system-config-network-gui", line 167, in main 
    window = mainDialog() 
  File "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/maindialog.py", line 248, in __init__ 
    self.hydrate() 
  File "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/maindialog.py", line 392, in hydrate 
    self.hydrateProfiles() 
  File "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/maindialog.py", line 602, in hydrateProfiles 
    hclist.append([host.IP, host.Hostname, 
TypeError: sequence item not a string or unicode object

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • system-config-network-1.3.99.19-1.el5 or earlier

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