Wicd stopped working, had to reinstall the package. Unknown cause...

flan_suse · 2011-01-28 17:13:06

Something strange happened recently on my setup. The Wicd client, and even wicd-curses, complained about not being able to connect to the Wicd daemon. I tried restarting the daemon, which reported success, but I still could not use Wicd. I then deleted /etc/wicd/* and /etc/dbus-1/system.d/wicd.conf, restarted the daemon, but still no success. It appeared that the daemon was not running. Even if I rebooted into runlevel 3, the same problem still happened.

I tried some solutions on this board, since others went through similar problems, but they made no difference. So I manually configured my network interface, hooked it up to a wired connection, removed the wicd package and it's dependencies (-Rs wicd), and then reisntalled the wicd package (I had cleaned my pacman cache earlier). Without having to reboot or revisit /etc/rc.conf or /etc/wicd/*, it began working again.

I'm just not sure what caused this problem to occur in the first place. I was using Wicd just fine, up to that point, and I had not touched anything under rc.conf, /etc/wicd/, or /etc/dbus-1/ anyways. Even after the major upgrade to Xfce (4.6 -> 4.8), Wicd was working like normal.

If anyone has the same issue, it doesn't hurt to try reinstalling the wicd package and its dependencies.

Last edited by flan_suse (2011-01-28 17:15:57)

Inxsible · 2011-01-28 17:39:37

maybe you should check your logs which might be able to throw more light on the issue.

flan_suse · 2011-01-28 18:16:38

The only thing of interest was the same output trying to run wicd-curses already showed me anyways. This repeats in the log file:

2011/01/27 21:16:52 :: Traceback (most recent call last):
2011/01/27 21:16:52 ::   File "/usr/share/wicd/daemon/wicd-daemon.py", line 1839, in <module>
2011/01/27 21:16:52 ::     main(sys.argv)
2011/01/27 21:16:52 ::   File "/usr/share/wicd/daemon/wicd-daemon.py", line 1802, in main
2011/01/27 21:16:52 ::     wicd_bus = dbus.service.BusName('org.wicd.daemon', bus=bus)
2011/01/27 21:16:52 ::   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/service.py", line 129, in __new__
2011/01/27 21:16:52 ::     retval = bus.request_name(name, name_flags)
2011/01/27 21:16:52 ::   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 306, in request_name
2011/01/27 21:16:52 ::     'su', (name, flags))
2011/01/27 21:16:52 ::   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 630, in call_blocking
2011/01/27 21:16:52 ::     message, timeout)
2011/01/27 21:16:52 :: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Connection ":1.3" is not allowed to own the service "org.wicd.daemon" due to security policies in the configuration file

After doing the steps in the first post, nothing worked until I reinstalled the wicd package. Sometimes it's quicker to try the simple solutions first, since it got me back to where I left off without needing to mess with different files and configs. I want to also add that I did not mess with anything dbus-related, so this sudden issue with Wicd took my by surprise.

I even tried the solution posted in this thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=111131

Last edited by flan_suse (2011-01-28 18:23:41)

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#1 2011-01-28 17:13:06

Wicd stopped working, had to reinstall the package. Unknown cause...

#2 2011-01-28 17:39:37

Re: Wicd stopped working, had to reinstall the package. Unknown cause...

#3 2011-01-28 18:16:38

Re: Wicd stopped working, had to reinstall the package. Unknown cause...

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