Re: [gentoo-user] wicd fails to set wireless connection

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tuesday 05 July 2011 10:32:44 Peter Weilbacher did opine thusly:
> Since yesterday I cannot use wicd any more to get a wireless
> connection (wired still works fine). I think this has to do with a
> dbus update, but I'm not sure. I have done several restarts,
> re-emerged all relevant packages (dbus, dbus-python, wicd) but
> still it stops shortly after clicking the connect button in the GUI
> window, saying "Disconnecting active connections..." in the status
> bar (even though no connections were active).
>
> If I start wicd-gtk from the command line I sometimes get the errors
> below, but often it just "hangs". wicd-curses always fails reliably
> with the output below. Does that ring a bell with someone?

Is dbus actually running?

/etc/init.d/dbus status
ps axu | grep dbus

I had an issue recently where the init script claimed dbus was running 
but ps proved it had died


>
> Cheers,
>     Peter.
>
> $ wicd-gtk
> Has notifications support True
> Loading...
> Connecting to daemon...
> Connected.
> displaytray True
> Done loading.
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/share/wicd/gtk/wicd-client.py", line 645, in
> network_selected wireless.ConnectWireless(net_id)
>    File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line
> 140, in __call__ **keywords)
>    File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/connection.py",
> line 630, in call_blocking message, timeout)
> dbus.exceptions.DBusException:
> org.freedesktop.DBus.Python.MemoryError: Traceback (most recent
> call last): File
> "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/service.py", line 702, in
> _message_cb retval = candidate_method(self, *args, **keywords)
>    File "/usr/share/wicd/daemon/wicd-daemon.py", line 1168, in
> ConnectWireless self.SaveWirelessNetworkProfile(id)
>    File "/usr/share/wicd/daemon/wicd-daemon.py", line 1278, in
> SaveWirelessNetworkProfile self.config.write()
>    File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/configmanager.py",
> line 218, in write p.set(sname, iname, value)
>    File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/configmanager.py",
> line 87, in set self.set_option(*args, **kargs)
>    File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/configmanager.py",
> line 77, in set_option value = to_unicode(value)
>    File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/misc.py", line 390,
> in to_unicode ret = x.decode(encoding).encode('utf-8')
> MemoryError
>
>
> $ wicd-curses
>
>
> DBus failure! This is most likely caused by the wicd daemon stopping
> while wicd-curses is running. Please restart the daemon, and then
> restart wicd-curses. Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py", line 905, in
> call_update_ui self.update_ui(True)
>    File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py", line 89, in wrapper
> return func(*args, **kargs)
>    File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py", line 916, in
> update_ui self.handle_keys(input_data[1])
>    File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py", line 837, in
> handle_keys self.connect("wireless",pos)
>    File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py", line 930, in
> connect wireless.ConnectWireless(networkid)
>    File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line
> 140, in __call__ **keywords)
>    File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/connection.py",
> line 630, in call_blocking message, timeout)
> dbus.exceptions.DBusException:
> org.freedesktop.DBus.Python.MemoryError: Traceback (most recent
> call last): File
> "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/service.py", line 702, in
> _message_cb retval = candidate_method(self, *args, **keywords)
>    File "/usr/share/wicd/daemon/wicd-daemon.py", line 1168, in
> ConnectWireless self.SaveWirelessNetworkProfile(id)
>    File "/usr/share/wicd/daemon/wicd-daemon.py", line 1278, in
> SaveWirelessNetworkProfile self.config.write()
>    File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/configmanager.py",
> line 218, in write p.set(sname, iname, value)
>    File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/configmanager.py",
> line 87, in set self.set_option(*args, **kargs)
>    File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/configmanager.py",
> line 77, in set_option value = to_unicode(value)
>    File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/misc.py", line 390,
> in to_unicode ret = x.decode(encoding).encode('utf-8')
> MemoryError
>
>
> $ emerge -vp wicd dbus dbus-python
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild   R    ] sys-apps/dbus-1.4.12  USE="X -debug -doc (-selinux)
> -static-libs -test" 0 kB [ebuild   R    ]
> dev-python/dbus-python-0.83.2  USE="-doc -examples -test" 0 kB
> [ebuild   R    ] net-misc/wicd-1.7.1_beta2-r4  USE="X gtk libnotify
> ncurses nls pm-utils (-ioctl)" 0 kB
>
> Total: 3 packages (3 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 0 kB
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com