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    No wicd after last update mgr update

    I just ran the update at the update manager's prompt. Apparently, it was installing a new kernel version.

    Anyway, after I rebooted, I had no networking. I noticed wicd was running, and it would start either. Checking out the wicd log, I saw this:

    Code:
    wicd is version 1.6.1 426
    2010/03/17 23:02:23 :: Traceback (most recent call last):
    2010/03/17 23:02:23 ::   File "/usr/share/wicd/wicd-daemon.py", line 1747, in <module>
    2010/03/17 23:02:23 ::     main(sys.argv)
    2010/03/17 23:02:23 ::   File "/usr/share/wicd/wicd-daemon.py", line 1711, in main
    2010/03/17 23:02:23 ::     daemon = WicdDaemon(wicd_bus, auto_connect=auto_connect)
    2010/03/17 23:02:23 ::   File "/usr/share/wicd/wicd-daemon.py", line 87, in __init__
    2010/03/17 23:02:23 ::     self.wired_bus= WiredDaemon(bus_name, self, wired=self.wired)
    2010/03/17 23:02:23 ::   File "/usr/share/wicd/wicd-daemon.py", line 1327, in __init__
    2010/03/17 23:02:23 ::     debug=debug)
    2010/03/17 23:02:23 ::   File "/usr/share/wicd/wicd/configmanager.py", line 40, in __init__
    2010/03/17 23:02:23 ::     self.read(path)
    2010/03/17 23:02:23 ::   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/ConfigParser.py", line 286, in read
    2010/03/17 23:02:23 ::     self._read(fp, filename)
    2010/03/17 23:02:23 ::   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/ConfigParser.py", line 510, in _read
    2010/03/17 23:02:23 ::     raise e
    2010/03/17 23:02:23 :: ConfigParser.ParsingError: File contains parsing errors: /etc/wicd/wired-settings.conf
    2010/03/17 23:02:23 ::  [line 20]: '[]\n'
    Looking at the referenced conf file, there was indeed a part of empty brackets at the bottom. I deleted them and tried again, and wicd started up and seems to be working now.

    It seems fine now, but anybody know what the heck caused that?

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    Re: No wicd after last update mgr update

    That's the first time that's been reported around here. But most of our customers use Network Manager -- as not many of them have need for wicd.
    To err is human, to forgive is very ... dog-like.

    Thomas Aaron
    FetchMasters, LLC

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    Re: No wicd after last update mgr update

    Quote Originally Posted by thomasaaron View Post
    That's the first time that's been reported around here. But most of our customers use Network Manager -- as not many of them have need for wicd.
    I had the same problem and I found the solution here:
    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1243485

    I posted the same solution to several different pleas for help. Hardly the "first time" it has been reported. However, I do not know why for sure it happened to me. My wife has not had a similar problem.

    I started using wicd because of the MANY postings of problems with Network Manager, especially the excessive wpa-supplicant polling of the network and subsequent crashes.
    Last edited by HobbitTR; April 10th, 2010 at 08:37 AM.
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