I'm having to self-load Wicd in the root terminal...any ideas?

[pampero]

When I upgraded to the latest Wicd, it wouldn't load automatically in the startup as it did before.

So I removed the startup entry and am currently having to enter the following commands to get Wicd loaded and get online.

su
wicd
wicd-gtk

In short, what is the correct procedure to get Wicd loading in the startup?

thanks!

[R3353]

How did you install/upgrade WICD? You could always download an rpm of your old version, cd to it's directory and 'yum -nogpgcheck downgrade wicd-*'

It does seem to be a bit temperamental from release to release, but I doubt your issue would have slipped through the cracks...

[pampero]

I upgraded using yum update from 1.7.0-1 to 1.7.0-2

I just tried installing the 1.7.0-3 but it's giving me conflict errors. Separate problem though.

So my only option for now is to attempt a downgrade? I would have thought that there would be some startup command able to harness root power, or a way to remove root privileges from the wicd command...

[R3353]

what is the output of 'chkconfig | grep wicd*'?

[richk]

What you may have to do is down load wicd 1.70 tarball and run config and install then
run yum wicd upgrade. you are problably missing wicd liberties that are not included in
wicd.1.7.02 rpm package.

also check /etc/init.d/wicd file for var RETVAL as lowercase var .

then you should be run service wicd status.

rpm files you need are:

wicd-common-1.7.0-2.fc13.noarch
wicd-1.7.0-2.fc13.x86_64
wicd-curses-1.7.0-2.fc13.noarch
wicd-gtk-1.7.0-2.fc13.noarch

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by richk

What you may have to do is down load wicd 1.70 tarball and run config and install then
run yum wicd upgrade. you are problably missing wicd liberties that are not included in
wicd.1.7.02 rpm package.

also check /etc/init.d/wicd file for var RETVAL as lowercase var .

then you should be run service wicd status.

rpm files you need are:

wicd-common-1.7.0-2.fc13.noarch
wicd-1.7.0-2.fc13.x86_64
wicd-curses-1.7.0-2.fc13.noarch
wicd-gtk-1.7.0-2.fc13.noarch

You have a missing dep for wicd-curses, it needs python-urwid

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/b...buildID=175093

What you may have to do is down load wicd 1.70 tarball and run config and install then
run yum wicd upgrade. you are problably missing wicd liberties that are not included in
wicd.1.7.02 rpm package.

Why would you need the tarball? , if you can explain it in a coherent way report it here and I will look into it.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=593841

[richk]

I originally built wicd from the tar package. I added urwid package when I came across it wicd on the home page.

[jamesjharris01]

I am aslo having the same issue with having to go into a terminal after each boot and start wicd manually before the gui will connect. I am running Fedora 15 and am new to Fedora (converted from Ubuntu to avoid Unity) so any help would be appreciated.

[richk]

I had to create wicd.service and wicd.target file under /lib/systemd/system
I don't rules for those files ;but I look other files under that dir.