Wicd Wont connect after upgrade

Cheesecake Charlie · 2011-10-04 07:17:15

Hi All

I have just run Pacman -Syu and now wicd will not connect to my network ... It sees all the available wireless connections, but wont connect.

Any suggestions please ?

Cheers

Shark · 2011-10-04 07:22:56

Downgrade package net-tools. Do:

pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/net-tools-1.60-18-i686.pkg.tar.xz

and wait till they fix the bug.

Cheesecake Charlie · 2011-10-04 07:25:08

Ah, that might be a problem, i ran pacman -Scc after upgrade, will have to download it manually first i think and then downgrade ...

jasonwryan · 2011-10-04 07:32:10

Shark wrote:

Downgrade package net-tools. Do:
pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/net-tools-1.60-18-i686.pkg.tar.xz
and wait till they fix the bug.

I don't see a bug on Flyspray or upstream: has this been reported?

Shark · 2011-10-04 07:34:43

jasonwryan wrote:

Shark wrote:
Downgrade package net-tools. Do:
pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/net-tools-1.60-18-i686.pkg.tar.xz
and wait till they fix the bug.
I don't see a bug on Flyspray or upstream: has this been reported?

I don't know. My internet disconnected 30 minutes ago after upgrading net-tools. Maybe it's not a bug but definitely breaks connection. I didn't report it.

Shark · 2011-10-04 07:36:24

The bug is posted here:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/26237?s … &closedto=

jasonwryan · 2011-10-04 07:41:17

I think it is a bug with wicd. After upgrading net-tools I can only connect manually; downgrading and wicd works fine...

# edit: thanks.

Last edited by jasonwryan (2011-10-04 07:46:28)

Cheesecake Charlie · 2011-10-04 07:47:17

I have just downgraded and still Wicd will not connect ....

Shark · 2011-10-04 07:51:04

Hm, it should work. Which version have you installed?

Cheesecake Charlie · 2011-10-04 08:01:30

My mistake, i used the wrong file, but downgraded to the correct file now ...

Cheers

jaco · 2011-10-04 09:29:29

Same here with wicd... Don't know if wicd is the culprit, but downgrading net-tools fixes the problem.

Shark · 2011-10-04 09:33:24

There is new wicd. Just upgrade the whole system with new net-tools. Everything works now.

jaco · 2011-10-04 09:35:19

No... Not here... I've just tried with the new wicd and the new net-tools and it doesn't work... Downgrading again net-tools fixes (again) the problem.

Shark · 2011-10-04 09:36:31

jaco wrote:

No... Not here... I've just tried with the new wicd and the new net-tools and it doesn't work... Downgrading again net-tools fixes (again) the problem.

Try to restart wicd daemon.

jaco · 2011-10-04 09:39:21

Ah... That's *much* better

Cheesecake Charlie · 2011-10-04 10:29:53

Works great now ....

Cheers

jaco · 2011-10-04 10:41:35

Is there some "official announce" about dropping hostname from net-tools (this command is rather popular) ? I have had to browse testing mail list to understand that's it's now in inetutils package...

Could it be possible that this new net-tools package suggest inetutils for those who need the hostname command ?

Or, better... could it be possible that pacman reports all changes/additions to the core/base when doing pacman -Syu ? Arch is a "running distro" and that's a problem if base is modified without announces...

Last edited by jaco (2011-10-04 16:55:42)

wooptoo · 2011-10-04 16:43:38

Is there a good reason why net-tools was upgraded from the stable version to the cvs one?

Being old is not an excuse. It worked flawlessly.

redcomet · 2011-10-04 17:01:29

As mentioned in this thread : https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=125613

You can get wicd to work when you change the backend to ioctl as a temporary fix.

edit: There is a wicd update now that fixes this issue, time to do pacman -Syu ( don't forget to completely stop and start all the wicd processes after this) . I can confirm that the update fixed the problem on my system.

Last edited by redcomet (2011-10-04 17:06:19)

Allan · 2011-10-04 20:26:20

wooptoo wrote:

It worked flawlessly.

Are you sure about that...

hennegwath · 2011-12-13 11:38:53

I keep expieriencing this bug with or without upgrades, downgrades, using external or not...

Any suggestions about this?

pacman says:
wicd 1.7.0-12
net-tools 1.60.20110819cvs-3

The connection keeps dropping when not in use without saying a word... it's very annoying.

Trilby · 2011-12-13 13:20:14

Hennegwath, welcome to the forum. I suspect the mods and veterans will recommend you start a new thread as this is likely a separate issue. The problem discussed in this thread was solved and related to updates from two months ago (in arch time, that's a long time).

Do you have reason to suspect your issue is related? If not a new thread with more details of your issue would help including type of connection (wired / wireless), hardware info (wireless card), etc.

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