Apparently, though unproven, at 01:48 on Tuesday 09 November 2010, Allan Gottlieb did opine thusly:
> I am a happy user of wicd, but recently a problem has arisen. > > The daemon starts and runs and at home it connects me to the wireless > network. > > The problem is that the applet icon no longer appears in my gnome panel. > > As I result I have no easy way to connect to another network. > > I checked main-menu-->system-->startup-applications > and Wicd Network Manager Tray is checked. > > I looked in /var/log and see no errors or warnings but also do not see > any indication that the Manager tray is started. How lucky for you I ran into this this morning and found the fix :-) Lemme guess, you have pygobject installed with USE="-introspection?" wicd-gtk is segfaulting, you'll see it in dmesg Sync and update to pygobject-2.26.0-r1. There's a one-line patch that needs to be applied. Here it is if your mirror is behind the times: From 97774cb149c5b03d5ef82a5af3f19e2ce4d79d0b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John (J5) Palmieri <jo...@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 16:43:31 +0000 Subject: return NULL instead of -1 which fixes crash when introspection is turned off * see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=631158 --- diff --git a/gi/pygi.h b/gi/pygi.h index 551bb6f..da71d28 100644 --- a/gi/pygi.h +++ b/gi/pygi.h @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ static inline PyObject * pygi_get_property_value (PyGObject *instance, const gchar *attr_name) { - return -1; + return NULL; } static inline gint -- cgit v0.8.3.1 -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
