Bug#881225: [pkg-wicd-maint] Bug#881225: wicd-daemon: had to install net-tools manually to get wicd working
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, 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
Bug#881225: wicd-daemon: had to install net-tools manually to get wicd working
Package: wicd-daemon Version: 1.7.4+tb2-4 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, 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. After I installed net-tools manually to provide ifconfig on the system, wicd worked again as usual. So either this is a dependency bug and net-tools should be an unconditional dependency of wicd-daemon, or wicd somehow doesn't use ifconfig alternatvies even if those are installed and ifconfig is not. Thanks! -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.2 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages wicd-daemon depends on: ii adduser 3.115 ii dbus 1.10.22-0+deb9u1 ii debconf 1.5.61 ii ethtool 1:4.8-1+b1 ii iproute2 4.9.0-1 ii iputils-ping 3:20161105-1 ii isc-dhcp-client 4.3.5-3 ii lsb-base 9.20161125 ii net-tools1.60+git20161116.90da8a0-1 ii psmisc 22.21-2.1+b2 ii python 2.7.13-2 ii python-dbus 1.2.4-1+b1 ii python-gobject 3.22.0-2 ii python-wicd 1.7.4+tb2-4 ii wireless-tools 30~pre9-12+b1 ii wpasupplicant2:2.4-1+deb9u1 Versions of packages wicd-daemon recommends: ii rfkill 0.5-1+b1 ii wicd-curses [wicd-client] 1.7.4+tb2-4 ii wicd-gtk [wicd-client] 1.7.4+tb2-4 Versions of packages wicd-daemon suggests: ii pm-utils 1.4.1-17 Versions of packages wicd-gtk depends on: ii python 2.7.13-2 ii python-glade2 2.24.0-5.1 ii python-gtk22.24.0-5.1 Versions of packages wicd-gtk recommends: ii gksu 2.0.2-9+b1 ii python-notify 0.1.1-4 Versions of packages wicd-curses depends on: ii python2.7.13-2 ii python-urwid 1.3.1-2+b1 Versions of packages wicd-curses recommends: ii sudo 1.8.19p1-2.1 Versions of packages python-wicd depends on: ii python 2.7.13-2 -- debconf information excluded