wicd fails to start (dbus related error)
Dear all
Recently Wicd started to always fail at start-up, with a dbus related error:
"Could not connect to wicd's D-Bus interface. Check the wicd log for
error messages."
Strangely the icon will load, but when clicking to access the
interface it will pop up the next error:
"The wicd daemon has shut down. The UI will not function properly
until it is restarted."
On the command line I get this:
liviu@debian-liv:~$ wicd-client
Has notifications support True
Loading...
Connecting to daemon...
Can't connect to the daemon, trying to start it automatically...
sudo: sorry, a password is required to run sudo
Wicd daemon is shutting down!
Done loading.
I tried to switch back to NetworkManager, but it's too unstable for
me. And I am not aware of other alternatives. At the end of the e-mail
are the messages that I get when I run Wicd from the root commandline,
and the log file. I get similar behaviour with both testing and sid
versions (1.6.1 and 1.6.2.2).
Thank you
Liviu
### root command line ###
debian-liv:/home/liviu# /etc/init.d/wicd restart
* Restarting Network connection manager wicd
[ ok ]
debian-liv:/home/liviu# wicd-client
libnotify-Message: Unable to get session bus: Did not receive a reply.
Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply,
the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout
expired, or the network connection was broken.
libnotify-Message: Unable to get session bus: Did not receive a reply.
Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply,
the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout
expired, or the network connection was broken.
Could not initalize pynotify
Has notifications support False
Loading...
Connecting to daemon...
Can't connect to the daemon, trying to start it automatically...
GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible
causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you
have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See
http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1:
Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible
causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the
message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout
expired, or the network connection was broken.)
GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible
causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you
have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See
http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1:
Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible
causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the
message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout
expired, or the network connection was broken.)
GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible
causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you
have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See
http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1:
Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible
causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the
message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout
expired, or the network connection was broken.)
Wicd daemon is shutting down!
** (wicd-client.py:9691): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_proxy_connect_signal:
assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed
** (wicd-client.py:9691): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_proxy_connect_signal:
assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed
** (wicd-client.py:9691): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_proxy_call: assertion
`DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed
Done loading.
### log file ###
2009/09/11 10:35:26 :: ---------------------------
2009/09/11 10:35:26 :: wicd initializing...
2009/09/11 10:35:26 :: ---------------------------
2009/09/11 10:35:26 :: wicd is version 1.6.1 426
2009/09/11 10:35:26 :: Traceback (most recent call last):
2009/09/11 10:35:26 :: File "/usr/share/wicd/wicd-daemon.py", line
1747, in <module>
2009/09/11 10:35:26 :: main(sys.argv)
2009/09/11 10:35:26 :: File "/usr/share/wicd/wicd-daemon.py", line
1711, in main
2009/09/11 10:35:26 :: daemon = WicdDaemon(wicd_bus,
auto_connect=auto_connect)
2009/09/11 10:35:26 :: File "/usr/share/wicd/wicd-daemon.py", line
87, in __init__
2009/09/11 10:35:26 :: self.wired_bus= WiredDaemon(bus_name, self,
wired=self.wired)
2009/09/11 10:35:26 :: File "/usr/share/wicd/wicd-daemon.py", line
1327, in __init__
2009/09/11 10:35:26 :: debug=debug)
2009/09/11 10:35:26 :: File "/usr/share/wicd/wicd/configmanager.py",
line 40, in __init__
2009/09/11 10:35:26 :: self.read(path)
2009/09/11 10:35:26 :: File "/usr/lib/python2.5/ConfigParser.py",
line 267, in read
2009/09/11 10:35:26 :: self._read(fp, filename)
2009/09/11 10:35:26 :: File "/usr/lib/python2.5/ConfigParser.py",
line 490, in _read
2009/09/11 10:35:26 :: raise e
2009/09/11 10:35:26 :: ConfigParser.ParsingError: File contains
parsing errors: /etc/wicd/wired-settings.conf
2009/09/11 10:35:26 :: [line 23]: '[]\n'
2009/09/11 10:35:31 :: ---------------------------
2009/09/11 10:35:31 :: wicd initializing...
2009/09/11 10:35:31 :: ---------------------------
2009/09/11 10:35:31 :: wicd is version 1.6.1 426
2009/09/11 10:35:31 :: Traceback (most recent call last):
2009/09/11 10:35:31 :: File "/usr/share/wicd/wicd-daemon.py", line
1747, in <module>
2009/09/11 10:35:31 :: main(sys.argv)
2009/09/11 10:35:31 :: File "/usr/share/wicd/wicd-daemon.py", line
1711, in main
2009/09/11 10:35:31 :: daemon = WicdDaemon(wicd_bus,
auto_connect=auto_connect)
2009/09/11 10:35:31 :: File "/usr/share/wicd/wicd-daemon.py", line
87, in __init__
2009/09/11 10:35:31 :: self.wired_bus= WiredDaemon(bus_name, self,
wired=self.wired)
2009/09/11 10:35:31 :: File "/usr/share/wicd/wicd-daemon.py", line
1327, in __init__
2009/09/11 10:35:31 :: debug=debug)
2009/09/11 10:35:31 :: File "/usr/share/wicd/wicd/configmanager.py",
line 40, in __init__
2009/09/11 10:35:31 :: self.read(path)
2009/09/11 10:35:31 :: File "/usr/lib/python2.5/ConfigParser.py",
line 267, in read
2009/09/11 10:35:31 :: self._read(fp, filename)
2009/09/11 10:35:31 :: File "/usr/lib/python2.5/ConfigParser.py",
line 490, in _read
2009/09/11 10:35:31 :: raise e
2009/09/11 10:35:31 :: ConfigParser.ParsingError: File contains
parsing errors: /etc/wicd/wired-settings.conf
2009/09/11 10:35:31 :: [line 23]: '[]\n'
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