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zephyrus17

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Registered: 2008-06-15

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"wicd needs access to your network card"

I've edited my /etc/dbus-1/system.d/wicd.conf as said by the wiki, and added myself to the network group. But upon startup wicd just says it needs access to my network card and asks for my root password. Then when I try to start wicd-client it just says "Could not connect to wicd's D-Bus interface. Check the wicd log for error messages"

here's the log for the last event:

2009/07/19 12:05:47 :: ---------------------------
2009/07/19 12:05:47 :: wicd initializing...
2009/07/19 12:05:47 :: ---------------------------
2009/07/19 12:05:47 :: wicd is version 1.6.2 436
2009/07/19 12:05:47 :: Traceback (most recent call last):
2009/07/19 12:05:47 ::   File "/usr/lib/wicd/wicd-daemon.py", line 1747, in <module>
2009/07/19 12:05:47 ::     main(sys.argv)
2009/07/19 12:05:47 ::   File "/usr/lib/wicd/wicd-daemon.py", line 1710, in main
2009/07/19 12:05:47 ::     wicd_bus = dbus.service.BusName('org.wicd.daemon', bus=bus)
2009/07/19 12:05:47 ::   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dbus/service.py", line 129, in __new__
2009/07/19 12:05:47 ::     retval = bus.request_name(name, name_flags)
2009/07/19 12:05:47 ::   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 306, in request_name
2009/07/19 12:05:47 ::     'su', (name, flags))
2009/07/19 12:05:47 ::   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 622, in call_blocking
2009/07/19 12:05:47 ::     message, timeout)
2009/07/19 12:05:47 :: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Connection ":1.30" is not allowed to own the service "org.wicd.daemon" due to security policies in the configuration file

djszapi

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From: Cambridge, United Kingdom

Registered: 2009-06-14

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Re: "wicd needs access to your network card"

Hello zephyrus17!

Could you follow this thread? http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/sup … 04521.html

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zephyrus17

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Registered: 2008-06-15

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Re: "wicd needs access to your network card"

Nope. didn't work. I copied

<allow send_requested_reply="true" send_type="method_call"/>

into the <policy> section of /etc/dbus-1/system.conf. The error message still appears. The password asking disappeared, though.

atcq

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-09-04

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Re: "wicd needs access to your network card"

i had a similar problem, i had a malformed config file (an empty wired network entry), after deleting the entry everything went back to normal!

zephyrus17

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Re: "wicd needs access to your network card"

what's the name of your config file?

atcq

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Registered: 2008-09-04

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Re: "wicd needs access to your network card"

config-file:
/etc/wicd/wired-settings.conf

i had a profile without a name in my config file, something like that:

[]

[wired-default]
afterscript = None
use_static_dns = False
dns3 = None
ip = None
dns1 = None
lastused = True
broadcast = None
default = 0
netmask = None
dns2 = None
beforescript = None
disconnectscript = None
gateway = None
use_global_dns = False

i had to delete "[]" ...

Last edited by atcq (2009-07-19 13:22:26)

zephyrus17

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Registered: 2008-06-15

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Re: "wicd needs access to your network card"

Nope. mine is fine. No extra stuff.

corion

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Re: "wicd needs access to your network card"

I had same problem. I removed the wicd package, deleted whole /etc/wcid and reinstalled the package, and it works again . Maybe you can try it?

zephyrus17

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Registered: 2008-06-15

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Re: "wicd needs access to your network card"

Hmm.. I could have, but out of frustration I did a complete reinstall of arch. Everything works now. Very odd.

Last edited by zephyrus17 (2009-07-23 13:14:05)