Hi Neels, thanks for this bug report!
Neels Hofmeyr wrote: > after upgrade to Debian 9 I installed wicd-gtk and saw wicd successfully > connecting (ping worked for like two seconds) and then disconnecting again > right away. > > Looking at the logs I saw that it complained about 'ifconfig' not being > available. Indeed net-tools was not installed on the system by default. Yes, this seems to have fallen through when net-tools had its Priority downgraded and hence no more guaranteed to be installed. :-/ > So either this is a dependency bug and net-tools should be an unconditional > dependency of wicd-daemon, For now, it's that. Will upload a fix to Debian Unstable soon and will see that I get the same fix afterwards to Stretch, too. > or wicd somehow doesn't use ifconfig alternatvies > even if those are installed and ifconfig is not. That's more of a long-time and upstream solution and tracked in https://bugs.debian.org/852333 and https://blueprints.launchpad.net/wicd/+spec/support-ip-iw Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE
