Debian Bug report logs - #786999
Unable to contact the Wicd daemon due to an access denied error from Dbus. (user is in netdev group)

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Package: wicd; Maintainer for wicd is Debian WICD Packaging Team <[email protected]>; Source for wicd is src:wicd (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: karl <[email protected]>

Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 15:51:02 UTC

Severity: important

Found in version wicd/1.7.2.4-4.1

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Report forwarded to [email protected], David Paleino <[email protected]>:
Bug#786999; Package wicd. (Wed, 27 May 2015 15:51:07 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to karl <[email protected]>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to David Paleino <[email protected]>. (Wed, 27 May 2015 15:51:07 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: karl <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: wicd
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 11:47:28 -0400
Subject: wicd: Unable to contact the Wicd daemon due to an access denied error from Dbus.  (user is in netdev group)
Package: wicd
Version: 1.7.2.4-4.1
Severity: important

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages wicd depends on:
ii  wicd-cli [wicd-client]     1.7.2.4-4.1
ii  wicd-curses [wicd-client]  1.7.2.4-4.1
ii  wicd-daemon                1.7.2.4-4.1
ii  wicd-gtk [wicd-client]     1.7.2.4-4.1
ii  wicd-kde [wicd-client]     0.3.1-1

wicd recommends no packages.

wicd suggests no packages.

Versions of packages wicd-cli depends on:
ii  python       2.7.9-1
ii  wicd-daemon  1.7.2.4-4.1

Versions of packages wicd-cli recommends:
ii  sudo  1.8.12-1

Versions of packages wicd-gtk depends on:
ii  python         2.7.9-1
ii  python-glade2  2.24.0-4
ii  python-gtk2    2.24.0-4
ii  wicd-daemon    1.7.2.4-4.1

Versions of packages wicd-gtk recommends:
ii  gksu           2.0.2-9
ii  python-notify  0.1.1-4

Versions of packages wicd-curses depends on:
ii  python        2.7.9-1
ii  python-urwid  1.2.1-2+b1
ii  wicd-daemon   1.7.2.4-4.1

Versions of packages wicd-curses recommends:
ii  sudo  1.8.12-1

Versions of packages wicd-daemon depends on:
ii  adduser          3.113+nmu3
ii  dbus             1.8.18-1
ii  debconf          1.5.56
ii  ethtool          1:3.16-1
ii  iproute          1:3.16.0-2
ii  iputils-ping     3:20121221-5+b2
ii  isc-dhcp-client  4.3.2-1
ii  lsb-base         4.1+Debian13+nmu1
ii  net-tools        1.60-26+b1
ii  psmisc           22.21-2
ii  python           2.7.9-1
ii  python-dbus      1.2.0-2+b3
ii  python-gobject   3.14.0-1
ii  python-wicd      1.7.2.4-4.1
ii  wireless-tools   30~pre9-8
ii  wpasupplicant    2.3-2

Versions of packages wicd-daemon recommends:
ii  rfkill                     0.5-1
ii  wicd-cli [wicd-client]     1.7.2.4-4.1
ii  wicd-curses [wicd-client]  1.7.2.4-4.1
ii  wicd-gtk [wicd-client]     1.7.2.4-4.1
ii  wicd-kde [wicd-client]     0.3.1-1

Versions of packages wicd-daemon suggests:
ii  pm-utils  1.4.1-15

Versions of packages python-wicd depends on:
ii  python  2.7.9-1

-- debconf information:
* wicd/users:



Changed Bug title to 'Unable to contact the Wicd daemon due to an access denied error from Dbus. (user is in netdev group)' from 'wicd' Request was from Axel Beckert <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (Wed, 27 May 2015 15:57:08 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Reply sent to Debian FTP Masters <[email protected]>:
You have taken responsibility. (Sat, 22 Aug 2020 15:27:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Notification sent to karl <[email protected]>:
Bug acknowledged by developer. (Sat, 22 Aug 2020 15:27:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #12 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

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Subject: Bug#968033: Removed package(s) from unstable
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2020 15:20:20 +0000
Version: 1.7.4+tb2-6+rm

Dear submitter,

as the package wicd has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/968033

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.

Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
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Bug reopened Request was from Axel Beckert <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (Mon, 24 Aug 2020 16:52:33 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


No longer marked as fixed in versions 1.7.4+tb2-6+rm. Request was from Axel Beckert <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (Mon, 24 Aug 2020 16:52:33 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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