Since yesterday I cannot use wicd any more to get a wireless connection (wired still works fine). I think this has to do with a dbus update, but I'm not sure. I have done several restarts, re-emerged all relevant packages (dbus, dbus-python, wicd) but still it stops shortly after clicking the connect button in the GUI window, saying "Disconnecting active connections..." in the status bar (even though no connections were active).
If I start wicd-gtk from the command line I sometimes get the errors below, but often it just "hangs". wicd-curses always fails reliably with the output below. Does that ring a bell with someone? Cheers, Peter. $ wicd-gtk Has notifications support True Loading... Connecting to daemon... Connected. displaytray True Done loading. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/wicd/gtk/wicd-client.py", line 645, in network_selected wireless.ConnectWireless(net_id) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 140, in __call__ **keywords) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 630, in call_blocking message, timeout) dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Python.MemoryError: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/service.py", line 702, in _message_cb retval = candidate_method(self, *args, **keywords) File "/usr/share/wicd/daemon/wicd-daemon.py", line 1168, in ConnectWireless self.SaveWirelessNetworkProfile(id) File "/usr/share/wicd/daemon/wicd-daemon.py", line 1278, in SaveWirelessNetworkProfile self.config.write() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/configmanager.py", line 218, in write p.set(sname, iname, value) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/configmanager.py", line 87, in set self.set_option(*args, **kargs) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/configmanager.py", line 77, in set_option value = to_unicode(value) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/misc.py", line 390, in to_unicode ret = x.decode(encoding).encode('utf-8') MemoryError $ wicd-curses DBus failure! This is most likely caused by the wicd daemon stopping while wicd-curses is running. Please restart the daemon, and then restart wicd-curses. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py", line 905, in call_update_ui self.update_ui(True) File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py", line 89, in wrapper return func(*args, **kargs) File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py", line 916, in update_ui self.handle_keys(input_data[1]) File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py", line 837, in handle_keys self.connect("wireless",pos) File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py", line 930, in connect wireless.ConnectWireless(networkid) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 140, in __call__ **keywords) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 630, in call_blocking message, timeout) dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Python.MemoryError: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/service.py", line 702, in _message_cb retval = candidate_method(self, *args, **keywords) File "/usr/share/wicd/daemon/wicd-daemon.py", line 1168, in ConnectWireless self.SaveWirelessNetworkProfile(id) File "/usr/share/wicd/daemon/wicd-daemon.py", line 1278, in SaveWirelessNetworkProfile self.config.write() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/configmanager.py", line 218, in write p.set(sname, iname, value) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/configmanager.py", line 87, in set self.set_option(*args, **kargs) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/configmanager.py", line 77, in set_option value = to_unicode(value) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/misc.py", line 390, in to_unicode ret = x.decode(encoding).encode('utf-8') MemoryError $ emerge -vp wicd dbus dbus-python These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] sys-apps/dbus-1.4.12 USE="X -debug -doc (-selinux) -static-libs -test" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-python/dbus-python-0.83.2 USE="-doc -examples -test" 0 kB [ebuild R ] net-misc/wicd-1.7.1_beta2-r4 USE="X gtk libnotify ncurses nls pm-utils (-ioctl)" 0 kB Total: 3 packages (3 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 0 kB