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:
~$ 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.
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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)
Per a user suggestion on the AntiX forum I created a user called demo and
then was able to get the daemon to install. As this was a live-cd user it
gets removed after an install of distro AntiX and the previous install of
wicd had had this user. Thought purging the packages removed all references
to users but I guess its stored somewhere else.
Is there a real need to remember users in these packages? Removed user
profiles should be ignored IMHO in configuring this package thus this bug
should be reopened and investigated further.
