Re: [gentoo-user] recent trouble with wicd and systemd (non-global ctrl_ifname)

[Alan McKinnon]

On 13/12/2013 00:47, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 4:52 PM,  <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote:
>> At home I use a wired connection so did notice the following problem
>> until I traveled and tried to connect wirelessly.
>> The problem must have started sometime within the past month.
>>
>> If I have wicd started by systemd, i.e.
>> systemctl enable wicd
>> The wired network is started fine but not the wireless.  Instead, I see
>> in the systemd journal
>>
>> wicd[290]: Failed to connect to non-global ctrl_ifname: wired  error: No
>> such file or directory
>> wicd[290]: Failed to connect to non-global ctrl_ifname: wireless  error: No
>> such file or directory
>>
>> If I instead systemctl disable wicd, reboot, and then manually type
>> wpa_supplicant -i wireless -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -B
>> it works.
>>
>> Indeed after I have booted I can start wicd and cannot get the error
>> above, but the actual behavior is not consistent.
>>
>> My system is ~amd64, profile gnome/systemd
>>
>> My wireless driver is from the package broadcom-sta (wl)
>
> I have never used wicd, so I can't say exactly what it's the problem;
> but I was under the impression that wicd is basically dead. Its last
> release was more than a year and a half ago.
>
> Regards.
>

release more than a year and a half ago != dead

the code the user has still works whether the devs adds upstream commits
or not.
It hasn't bit-rooted, is not incompatible with everything else and
doesn't have outstanding security bugs with little chance of being fixed.

So what's the problem?

By that logic, zenity needs to have died 5 years ago but it's still around

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@×××××.com