WICD crashes entire system if no eth0 cable connected

Lockheed · 2012-07-19 08:40:31

If I boot without the network cable connected, system freezes few seconds after wicd deamon starts.

If I disconnect the cable (even while being connected to a wifi) when system is running, it freezes after few seconds.

There is no errors in wicd or kernel logs.

I tried reinstalling wicd, but it did not help. This is a fresh Arch 64 installation.

Last edited by Lockheed (2012-07-19 08:42:22)

JackH79 · 2012-07-19 08:52:38

Do you have extra:ifplugd installed?

Lockheed · 2012-07-19 09:24:07

I didn't, but installing it didn't change anything.

JackH79 · 2012-07-19 09:45:32

Since it's a fresh install, is there still network in your /etc/rc.conf's daemons array?

Lockheed · 2012-07-19 09:46:51

Nope.

Lockheed · 2012-07-19 11:22:54

Turns out that if I blacklist module for eth0 (atl1c) the system does not crash. But it's not really a solution cause it means I cannot ever use eth connection.

Wilco · 2012-07-19 11:31:50

You can safely blacklist atl1c and modprobe it when you need it. That way udev does not automatically load it but you can still manually load it. Blacklist does not provend manually loading modules.

I have the same problem with the proprietary broadcom-wl driver. When udev tries to autload wl, the incompatile brcmsmac driver is also loaded resulting in a kernel panic.

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WICD crashes entire system if no eth0 cable connected

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