wicd-daemon (1.7.0+ds1-7) fails to install

DeepDayze · posted: 2011-10-21 14:59

Hello, a recent DU has brought in package wicd (1.7.0+ds1-7) and this package failed to install as I get error:

wicd-daemon failed to preconfigure, with exit status 1

here's the output:

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:~$ sudo apt-get install wicd
[sudo] password for ruser: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libxcb-render-util0 libtorrent13 libwebkit-1.0-2 libdirectfb-extra
  libthunar-vfs-1-common libnl1 libffmpegthumbnailer4 libgnome-desktop-2-17
  fonts-droid libwebkit-1.0-common libthunar-vfs-1-2
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  python-wicd wicd-daemon wicd-gtk
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  python-wicd wicd wicd-daemon wicd-gtk
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 543 kB of archives.
After this operation, 2,432 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main python-wicd all 1.7.0+ds1-7 [78.2 kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main wicd-daemon all 1.7.0+ds1-7 [280 kB]
Get:3 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main wicd-gtk all 1.7.0+ds1-7 [143 kB]
Get:4 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main wicd all 1.7.0+ds1-7 [41.8 kB]
Fetched 543 kB in 0s (599 kB/s) 
Preconfiguring packages ...
wicd-daemon failed to preconfigure, with exit status 1
Selecting previously unselected package python-wicd.
(Reading database ... 113161 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking python-wicd (from .../python-wicd_1.7.0+ds1-7_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package wicd-daemon.
Unpacking wicd-daemon (from .../wicd-daemon_1.7.0+ds1-7_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package wicd-gtk.
Unpacking wicd-gtk (from .../wicd-gtk_1.7.0+ds1-7_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package wicd.
Unpacking wicd (from .../wicd_1.7.0+ds1-7_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Setting up python-wicd (1.7.0+ds1-7) ...
Setting up wicd-daemon (1.7.0+ds1-7) ...
dpkg: error processing wicd-daemon (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of wicd-gtk:configured to not write apport reports

 wicd-gtk depends on wicd-daemon (= 1.7.0+ds1-7); however:
  Package wicd-daemon is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing wicd-gtk (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of wicd:configured to not write apport reports

 wicd depends on wicd-daemon (= 1.7.0+ds1-7); however:
  Package wicd-daemon is not configured yet.
 wicd depends on wicd-gtk (= 1.7.0+ds1-7) | wicd-curses (= 1.7.0+ds1-7) | wicd-cli (= 1.7.0+ds1-7) | wicd-client; however:
  Package wicd-gtk is not configured yet.
  Package wicd-curses is not installed.
  Package wicd-cli is not installed.
  Package wicd-client is not installed.
  Package wicd-gtk which provides wicd-client is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing wicd (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for python-support ...configured to not write apport reports

Errors were encountered while processing:
 wicd-daemon
 wicd-gtk
 wicd
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

As I can't upgrade this I had to roll back to wicd packages in testing and locked it from further upgrades

Any one else using Sid with AntiX and getting this error?

rokytnji · posted: 2011-10-21 15:30

As a experiment. Add a user named

demo

and see if deamon starts then is all I can figure. Might be way off base though as I am not Sid proficient. __{{emoticon}}__

DeepDayze · posted: 2011-10-21 16:35

rokytnji wrote:As a experiment. Add a user named

demo
and see if deamon starts then is all I can figure. Might be way off base though as I am not Sid proficient. __{{emoticon}}__

Did that and it works...and found this bug report:
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=634051"
linktext was:"http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=634051"
====================================

So the problem then still exists. I added a note to the bug report above.

anticapitalista · posted: 2011-10-21 16:37

Glad you found that bug report as this issue has been driving me nuts for ages. I thought it was an 'unsolvable' bug in antiX.

DeepDayze · posted: 2011-10-21 16:49

Noted that I had purged all wicd packages and then tried reinstalling them manually but still that problem remained until rokytnji suggested I re-add the user demo then re-install the wicd-daemon package..that worked.

I considered dumping wicd and installing network-manager instead

DeepDayze · posted: 2011-10-21 20:48

I got a response from the wicd-daemon maintainer and there should be a fixed package soon:

found 634051 wicd/1.7.0+ds1-7
thanks

Hello,

On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:45:24 -0400, rcm0502 wrote:

> With a recent dist-upgrade the problem still exists as noted below. I have
> purged all the wicd* packages and tried afresh but still fails to
> preconfigure wicd-daemon:
>
> [..]

OK, I think I finally fixed it now __{{emoticon}}__

-8 coming soon.

David

DeepDayze · posted: 2011-10-21 23:40

The new wicd* packages in sid now install properly even after removing a user prior to updating the wicd packages. Hopefully this will be resolved once and for all so you AntiX Sid users should try these out and post feedback here __{{emoticon}}__