Re: wicd fails to start after upgrade

["Wayne <linuxtwo@gmail.com>" <linuxtwo@gmail.com>]

Sebastian wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 02:36PM -0500, Wayne <linuxtwo@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > Sebastian wrote:
> > > > > After the last upgrade wicd fails to start. It also stopped writing it's logs and when I call it directly by just entering 'wicd' I get following error:
> > > > >
> > > > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > > > >  File "/usr/share/wicd/daemon/wicd-daemon.py", line 61, in <module>
> > > > >    from wicd.logfile import ManagedStdio
> > > > > ImportError: No module named logfile

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> Yes, I have apt-listbugs installed and working here as well, yet I
> can't remember any bugs for wicd coming up before the upgrade - of
> course it was late in the night and who knows what I was seeing ;-)
>
> Anyway, I removed unstable from the sources.list and tried removing
> and re-installing wicd but I can still only get 1.7.0-2
>
> > Yes 'apt-cache policy wicd' will show the packages in every dist you
> > have in the sources.list, I believe. Here it shows both
> > testing/unstable.
>
> thanks, 'apt-cache policy wicd' shows
> wicd:
>   Installed: 1.7.0-2
>   Candidate: 1.7.0-2
>   Version table:
>  *** 1.7.0-2 0
>         700 http://ftp.ie.debian.org testing/main Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> hmmm... 1.7.0-2 is testing??? And no 1.6...?
> Getting more and more confused here... - Any hints

Sebastian

I just finished setting up another testing box with wireless, an
old Netgear WPN311 pci card.  Using the madwifi ath5k modules.

I installed wicd 1.7.0-2 and, after fixing some of my usual typo's,
it is running as good ad the old 1.6 version.

HTH
Wayne