retitle 554949 empty section in configuration file makes wicd not to start tags 553197 confirmed severity 553197 important block 554949 by 553197 thanks
On Saturday 07 November 2009 13:09:24, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > Package: wicd > Version: 1.6.2.2-2 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > > Hi! Hi Rhonda (and Lisandro, submitter of #553197), This bug has already been filed by Lisandro (recently I admit!), and unfortunately I haven't yet had the time to investigate it further. I'm keeping the two bugs separated because I temporarily fixed the error (and found a workaround for this particular one), but I should really find where the empty section gets added. So, this workaround will fix _this_ severity:grave bug, while the fact that it merely adds an empty section could be an important bug, as I'm not sure this fix is going to be future-proof :) Yes, they're the same bug, but I'm fixing them as they were different ones :) > [..] > According to the log (which is sitting in a strangely permissioned > directory: 1363?! what for?! ... and please chown :adm) Not my fault, I swear! :) That directory is root:root here. (will chown it root:adm) > the issue seems to be the empty block at the end: > > [..] > #v- > > Unfortunately, running /etc/init.d/wicd start doesn't give any hint, it > even exits with 0 which is wrong (and is part of the justification for > the severity). Ok, I think I've fixed this. > Removing the empty block [] from the wired-settings.conf makes the > problem go away, but as said, I never hand-touched that file (yet) and > thus suspect an error somewhere in wicd - besides that it shouldn't > break like that. :/ Fixed this as well. Thank you, and thanks for waking me up on this grave bug. However, I should really fix where this section gets added -- I'm not sure my workaround is safe enough. 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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