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On Fri, Nov 25 2011, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote: |
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>> In the last day or two wicd broke badly due to a net-tools upgrade. |
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>> The recommended workarounds are to specify USE=old-output |
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>> for net-tools or to downgrade net-tools one version (I am ~amd64). |
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>> Neither of these have helped me. Wicd cannot start either the |
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>> wired or wireless interface. |
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>> When I type |
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>> killall dhcpd; dhcpd |
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>> Both networks come up but the wireless gets many errors (as reported |
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>> by ifconfig). Also sometimes the network goes down again. |
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>> Two days ago both networks were solid. |
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>> Another machine that I was in the process of bringing up (gentoo fully |
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>> installed from the handbook, but many utilities not yet done) also fails |
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>> under wicd today (worked fine two days ago). For this machine |
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>> killall dhcp; dhcp |
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>> reports that "no interfaces have a carrier" |
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>> The machine is 10 feet from the router/wap (linksys) and again |
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>> all was well 2 days ago. |
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>> Help would be very much appreciated. |
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>> thanks, |
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>> allan |
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>> PS I couldn't connect yesterday and today, the new gnome (3.2) hit |
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>> testing. Since I don't want to bite that big, potentially disruptive |
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>> update with this network problem (the overlay version failed for me), I |
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>> have not done an update world for 2 or 3 days. |
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> Not to be too glib but isn't this sort of problem exactly what the |
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> whole stable vs ~amd64 decision is really all about? |
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> Anyway, my machines are stable with a few ~amd64 entries in |
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> package.keywords. I don't keyword either of these packages and I have |
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> wicd-1.7.1_beta2-r4 & net-tools-1.60_p20110409135728 on my laptop. |
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> Both wireless & wired come up fine here. |
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> I have dhcpd on the machine but I don't run it. |
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> Not exactly sure how any of that will help you but I'm fully up to |
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> date as of today and everything seems to be working fine. |
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> - Mark |
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Right. I am running testing. But so are many on this list and I |
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believe many of those use wicd. I was hoping someone would have solved |
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this same problem. |
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allan |
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