[arch-general] wicd startup issues

Samuel Baldwin

17 Nov 2010 17 Nov '10

7:50 p.m.

After a fresh install of wicd (I pacman -Sy'd yesterday), it won't seem to start; not really sure what to do here. arrakis^samuel# wicd Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/wicd/daemon/wicd-daemon.py", line 56, in <module> from wicd import wpath ImportError: No module named wicd arrakis^samuel# wicd-gtk ** Message: pygobject_register_sinkfunc is deprecated (GtkWindow) ** Message: pygobject_register_sinkfunc is deprecated (GtkInvisible) ** Message: pygobject_register_sinkfunc is deprecated (GtkObject) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/wicd/gtk/wicd-client.py", line 61, in <module> from wicd import wpath ImportError: No module named wicd -- Samuel Baldwin - logik.li

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John K Pate

17 Nov 17 Nov

8:02 p.m.

On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 13:50 -0500, Samuel Baldwin wrote:

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After a fresh install of wicd (I pacman -Sy'd yesterday), it won't seem to start; not really sure what to do here.

Did you "pacman -Sy" or "pacman -Syu"? Probably has to do with the move to python3. John == John K Pate Student, PhD Informatics Informatics Forum 3.35 The University of Edinburgh http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s0930006/ The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

Samuel Baldwin

7:58 p.m.

2010/11/17 John K Pate :

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Did you "pacman -Sy" or "pacman -Syu"? Probably has to do with the move to python3.

Just `pacman -Sy', X seems to break when I update it and I'm down to one machine at the moment, haven't wanted to break the laptop for a day to figure out what's going on. Last time I just rolled back everything. -- Samuel Baldwin - logik.li

Samuel Baldwin

8:02 p.m.

Also, when I run `python3' and type 'import wicd' I still get the same error, so I'm sceptical of explaining it away as merely python3, unless I'm missing something. -- Samuel Baldwin - logik.li

John K Pate

8:14 p.m.

On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 14:02 -0500, Samuel Baldwin wrote:

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Also, when I run `python3' and type 'import wicd' I still get the same error, so I'm sceptical of explaining it away as merely python3, unless I'm missing something.

Try it with `python2'. `wicd' expects python2, and `python' now calls `python3'. == John K Pate Student, PhD Informatics Informatics Forum 3.35 The University of Edinburgh http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s0930006/ -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

Samuel Baldwin

8:08 p.m.

Same error. I'm not updated to the point where python3 is the default anyways. `python' still runs 2.6.5. -- Samuel Baldwin - logik.li

Evangelos Foutras

8:18 p.m.

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Samuel Baldwin wrote:

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Same error. I'm not updated to the point where python3 is the default anyways. `python' still runs 2.6.5.

We don't support partial upgrades. You should never use -Sy if not followed by -Su (or combined, -Syu). Now, go ahead and do a full upgrade. :)

Matthew Gyurgyik

8:20 p.m.

On 11/17/2010 02:18 PM, Evangelos Foutras wrote:

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On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Samuel Baldwin wrote:

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Same error. I'm not updated to the point where python3 is the default anyways. `python' still runs 2.6.5. We don't support partial upgrades. You should never use -Sy if not followed by -Su (or combined, -Syu).

Now, go ahead and do a full upgrade. :) To explain what happened... the wicd modules got installed in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/, however python2 is looking for the modules in /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/

As stated above you should always do full upgrades. Failing to do so, results in no support from us.

Samuel Baldwin

10:14 p.m.

Fair enough, thanks for the input. -- Samuel Baldwin - logik.li

Philipp Überbacher

18 Nov 18 Nov

12:20 p.m.

Excerpts from Samuel Baldwin's message of 2010-11-17 19:50:46 +0100:

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After a fresh install of wicd (I pacman -Sy'd yesterday), it won't seem to start; not really sure what to do here.

arrakis^samuel# wicd Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/wicd/daemon/wicd-daemon.py", line 56, in <module> from wicd import wpath ImportError: No module named wicd

arrakis^samuel# wicd-gtk ** Message: pygobject_register_sinkfunc is deprecated (GtkWindow) ** Message: pygobject_register_sinkfunc is deprecated (GtkInvisible) ** Message: pygobject_register_sinkfunc is deprecated (GtkObject) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/wicd/gtk/wicd-client.py", line 61, in <module> from wicd import wpath ImportError: No module named wicd

I'd avoid wicd altogether, upstream development has stalled, the (AFAIK) main dev uses network manager now and is looking for new wicd maintainers. I had loads of troubles with wicd even before python3.

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