wicd daemon fails to start

[marco van der grient]

Chris wrote:
> Hi,
>
> any idea, why wicd-daemon fails to start? Rebuilding Python2.7 
> (+modules) and wicd didn't help.
>
> /var/log/wicd/wicd.log:
>
> 2010/10/23 15:31:10 :: ---------------------------
> 2010/10/23 15:31:10 :: wicd initializing...
> 2010/10/23 15:31:10 :: ---------------------------
> 2010/10/23 15:31:10 :: wicd is version 1.7.0 552
> 2010/10/23 15:31:10 :: setting backend to external
> 2010/10/23 15:31:10 :: trying to load backend external
> 2010/10/23 15:31:10 :: successfully loaded backend external
> 2010/10/23 15:31:10 :: trying to load backend external
> 2010/10/23 15:31:10 :: successfully loaded backend external
> 2010/10/23 15:31:10 :: Automatically detected wireless interface wlan0
> 2010/10/23 15:31:10 :: setting wireless interface wlan0
> 2010/10/23 15:31:10 :: automatically detected wired interface eth0
> 2010/10/23 15:31:10 :: setting wired interface eth0
> 2010/10/23 15:31:10 :: setting wpa driver wext
> 2010/10/23 15:31:10 :: setting use global dns to False
> 2010/10/23 15:31:10 :: setting global dns
> 2010/10/23 15:31:10 :: global dns servers are None None None
> 2010/10/23 15:31:10 :: domain is None
> 2010/10/23 15:31:10 :: search domain is None
> 2010/10/23 15:31:10 :: setting automatically reconnect when connection 
> drops True
> 2010/10/23 15:31:11 :: Setting dhcp client to 0
> 2010/10/23 15:31:11 :: Wireless configuration file found...
> 2010/10/23 15:31:11 :: Wired configuration file found...
> 2010/10/23 15:31:11 :: chmoding configuration files 0600...
> 2010/10/23 15:31:11 :: chowning configuration files root:root...
> 2010/10/23 15:31:11 :: Using wireless interface...wlan0
> 2010/10/23 15:31:11 :: Using wired interface...eth0
> 2010/10/23 15:31:11 :: Traceback (most recent call last):
> 2010/10/23 15:31:11 ::   File "/usr/share/wicd/daemon/wicd-daemon.py", 
> line 1839, in <module>
> 2010/10/23 15:31:11 ::     main(sys.argv)
> 2010/10/23 15:31:11 ::   File "/usr/share/wicd/daemon/wicd-daemon.py", 
> line 1807, in main
> 2010/10/23 15:31:11 ::     shell=False, close_fds=True).pid
> 2010/10/23 15:31:11 ::   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 
> 672, in __init__
> 2010/10/23 15:31:11 ::     errread, errwrite)
> 2010/10/23 15:31:11 ::   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 
> 1201, in _execute_child
> 2010/10/23 15:31:11 ::     raise child_exception
> 2010/10/23 15:31:11 :: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no 
> attribute 'rfind'
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
> _____
Looks like this bug, theres also a solution to your problem.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/wicd/+bug/602825
Cheers, Marco
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