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JMK

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From: Los Angeles, CA

Registered: 2011-09-20

Posts: 9

[SOLVED] wicd-curses: ImportError: libdbus-glib-1.so.2

Installed wicd after a fresh Arch install on my laptop, but I'm getting the following error message when attempting to start wicd-curses from the terminal:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py", line 52, in <module>
    from wicd import dbusmanager
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/dbusmanager.py", line 30, in <module>
    from dbus.mainloop.glib import DBusGMainLoop
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/mainloop/glib.py", line 29, in <module>
    from _dbus_glib_bindings import DBusGMainLoop, gthreads_init
ImportError: libdbus-glib-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I've got dbus and wicd listed in proper sequential order in my rc.conf. I disabled the network daemon. Pacman -Syu'd. I tried all the suggestions for problems with wicd-curses like deleting /etc/wicd, ~/.wicd & /etc/dbus-1/system.d/wicd.conf and reinstalling wicd; rebooting. No luck.

My uneducated guess is that I'm missing a dependency related to python/dbus, but I checked to make sure that I had all the listed dependencies from extra, so if anybody has any ideas, I'd really appreciate it.

Last edited by JMK (2012-05-15 06:11:22)

skunktrader

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

Posts: 1,543

Re: [SOLVED] wicd-curses: ImportError: libdbus-glib-1.so.2

Check to see if you have dbus-glib installed.

JMK

Member

From: Los Angeles, CA

Registered: 2011-09-20

Posts: 9

Re: [SOLVED] wicd-curses: ImportError: libdbus-glib-1.so.2

I did not, but I installed it and wicd-curses is now working. Thank you!

dbus-glib was not listed as a dependency for wicd. I will file a bug report.