Package: wicd
Version: 1.5.9-1
Severity: normal
Should wicd-client be run as root or not? The documentation doesn't say. Some
websites claim that it should not, but running it as a regular user fails on my
system:
$ /usr/bin/wicd-client &
[1] 6438
~$ Loading...
Attempting to connect tray to daemon...
Success.
ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on :1.0:/org/wicd/daemon:
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied:
Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.13"
(uid=1000 pid=6438 comm="python /usr/share/wicd/wicd-client.py ")
interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable" member="Introspect" error
name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination=":1.0" (uid=0 pid=3287
comm="python /usr/share/wicd/wicd-daemon.py "))
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/wicd/wicd-client.py", line 565, in <module>
main(sys.argv)
File "/usr/share/wicd/wicd-client.py", line 546, in main
tray_icon = TrayIcon(use_tray, animate)
File "/usr/share/wicd/wicd-client.py", line 102, in __init__
self.icon_info = self.TrayConnectionInfo(self.tr, use_tray, animate)
File "/usr/share/wicd/wicd-client.py", line 127, in __init__
self.update_tray_icon()
File "/usr/share/wicd/wicd-client.py", line 184, in update_tray_icon
[state, info] = daemon.GetConnectionStatus()
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/dbus/proxies.py", line 68, in __call__
return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords)
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/dbus/proxies.py", line 140, in
__call__
**keywords)
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/dbus/connection.py", line 622, in
call_blocking
message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied:
Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.13"
(uid=1000 pid=6438 comm="python /usr/share/wicd/wicd-client.py ")
interface="org.wicd.daemon" member="GetConnectionStatus" error name="(unset)"
requested_reply=0 destination=":1.0" (uid=0 pid=3287 comm="python
/usr/share/wicd/wicd-daemon.py "))
When run as root, it comes up correctly, but if indeed it is supposed to be run
as root, then '/etc/xdg/autostart' needs to be changed to invoke it as root,
since as written, it calls it as the regular user, which doesn't work, as
above. I.e., wicd-client fails to autostart on my system, apparently because
of the above problem.
-- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers
unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-rc3-wl-lizzie
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages wicd depends on:
ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups
ii dhcp3-client 3.1.1-6 DHCP client
ii iproute 20080725-2 networking and traffic control too
ii net-tools 1.60-22 The NET-3 networking toolkit
ii python 2.5.2-3 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-dbus 0.83.0-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii python-glade2 2.12.1-6 GTK+ bindings: Glade support
ii python-gtk2 2.12.1-6 Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii python-support 0.8.7 automated rebuilding support for P
ii wireless-tools 29-1.1 Tools for manipulating Linux Wirel
ii wpasupplicant 0.6.4-3 Client support for WPA and WPA2 (I
wicd recommends no packages.
Versions of packages wicd suggests:
ii pm-utils 1.1.2.4-1 utilities and scripts for power ma
-- debconf-show failed
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
