retitle 530918 wicd tries to get status of shutdown hardware severity 530918 important thanks
On Sat, 30 May 2009 11:03:35 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > On 0, David Paleino <d.pale...@gmail.com> wrote: > > tags 530918 = moreinfo > > thanks > > > > On Sat, 30 May 2009 10:00:42 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > > > > > [..] > > > Could not open /sys/class/net/eth0/flags, using ifconfig to determine > > > status > > > [..] > > > > This is the only strange thing of the log. That line being repeated multiple > > times. > > > > Do you have /sys/class/net/eth0/flags ? What are its permissions? > > What's your output of mount | grep sysfs ? > > Weird, I seemed to have fixed the problem. It seems that when you turn off any > previously existing hardware (I had my ethernet card turned off for power > saving), wicd is unable to pick this up and still tries to get it's state. Ah, ok. That's why the /sys/class/../flags lookup AND ifconfig both failed. > Perhaps I should report this as an upstream bug? I'll take care of that :) However, my suggestion of trying this bug with the upcoming 1.6 release is still valid :) Kindly, David -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://snipr.com/qa_page `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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