Debian: Wicd "access denied error from DBus. Check your user is in netdev group"

[hanzj]

Hello,
My main desktop comp uses Ubuntu, but I use Debian on my netbook.


I've just done

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

.

and when I restarted my computer (debian version 5.0) I get this message:

WICD
Unable to contact the Wicd daemon due to an access denied error from DBus. Please check that your user is in the netdev group.

Wicd is my wireless connection program. I think what happened when i ran apt-get upgrade is that the wicd got updated to the latest (1.6.2.2) version.

How can I fix this? Thank you.

[Icehuck]

Hello,
My main desktop comp uses Ubuntu, but I use Debian on my netbook.


I've just done

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

.

and when I restarted my computer (debian version 5.0) I get this message:





Wicd is my wireless connection program. I think what happened when i ran apt-get upgrade is that the wicd got updated to the latest (1.6.2.2) version.

How can I fix this? Thank you.

Are you a part of the netdev group? If not try adding yourself to it?

[cariboo]

TO find out what groups your user is a member of, open a terminal and type

groups

To add yourself to a group type:

sudo gpasswd -a <username> netdev

[hanzj]

cariboo907,
thank you.
I did

groups

but did not see my username (the username I used to log onto the debian netbook.
But I knew what it was and did

sudo gpasswd -a <username> netdev

.

I then did

wicd-client

and it works A-OK!


Thank you, my fellow Ubuntu user, for helping me with this question re: my debian comp.