wicd has problems to allocate an IP address via dhcp. It doesn't matter if connection is wired or wireless or if dhclient or dhcpcd is used. However if dhclient is used interactively from console it always works. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. open wicd network manager 2. try to connect wired or wireless connection Actual Results: Allocation of IP adress fails Expected Results: to have a working network connection maybe a problem IPv4 / IPv6???
1) Please post your `emerge --info net-misc/wicd' output in a comment. 2) Please attach relevant debug output to this bug report.
Here's 1: emerge --info net-misc/wicd Portage 2.2.8-r1 (default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.7.3, glibc-2.19-r1, 3.14.14-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.14.14-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-4500U_CPU_@_1.80GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 7949104 total, 6159184 free KiB Swap: 8388604 total, 8388604 free Timestamp of tree: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 16:45:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.2 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p45 dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0 dev-lang/python: 2.7.7, 3.3.5-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.12.2-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.12.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6, 1.12.6, 1.13.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.23.2 sys-devel/gcc: 4.7.3-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r4 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.13 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.19-r1 Repositories: gentoo ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=core-avx2 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/easy-rsa /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=core-avx2 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/" LANG="de_DE.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 apache2 berkdb bindist bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus declarative dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk iconv ipod ipv6 jpeg kde kipi lcms ldap libnotify mad mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg multilib ncurses nls nptl nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf phonon php plasma png policykit ppds qt3support qt4 readline savedconfig sdl semantic-desktop session spell sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg tcpd tiff truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb vdpau vhosts vorbis wxwidgets x264 xcb xcomposite xinerama xml xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="de" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby20" SANE_BACKENDS="xerox_mfp" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia modesetting" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= net-misc/wicd-1.7.2.4-r3 was built with the following: USE="X gtk libnotify ncurses nls pm-utils -ambiance -doc (-ioctl) -mac4lin" ABI_X86="64" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7" To 2: Please tell me what you need.
Looks like this is a problem with IPv4 IPv6 dual stack. I do get an IPv6 address but not an IPv4. And after timeout even IPv6 address is removed. But running dhcpcd by hand works. I don't know why. I have a dual stack configuration on a fritbox running native IPv4 connection from my ISP. Additional I have a SIXXS 6in4 tunnel connection. After adding "noipv6rs" to /etc/dhcpcd.conf I get an IPv4 adress but this is at the cost of only getting IPv4 connection so I can't reach the IPv6 world. Please see URL as added. Looks like I'm not the only one with this problem. If you need further information please let me know.
I'm very sorry but I can't help you here. This is clearly an upstream problem, but development has stalled: https://answers.launchpad.net/wicd/+question/227789 (upstream is using networkmanager ;) I also have no computer using wicd at the moment. If you have patches or other constructive suggestions I'd be happy to act on them.
I've figured out that using pump as opposed to dhcpcd/dhclient works reliably for wireless but not wired connections, although I have absolutely no idea why.
I found that wicd couldn't get a DCHP address, with a log message saying that it couldn't open stdin. A fix seems to be to replace the stdin in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wicd/misc.py with: 132a133 > # wicd has problems calling dhclient via PIPE ### ### 134c135 < std_in = PIPE --- > std_in = None Why this works, or what other effects it has, I don't know. C W Rose
Can you try with current 1.7.4-r3?
