[pkg-wicd-maint] Bug#872272: wicd: default route remains 'wlan0' despite being set to 'prefer wired'

[Paul "LeoNerd" Evans]

Package: wicd
Version: 1.7.4+tb2-4
Severity: normal

I have wicd in control of both wired and wifi networks. I have set it to
prefer a wired network if available.

I currently have a wifi network available as wlan0, which wicd has
controlled.

I currently have a wired network available as eth0, which wicd has
controlled.

But yet, my default route is via wlan0:

  $ ip ro ls
  default via 192.168.43.1 dev wlan0
  ...

I can of course manually swap this

  $ sudo ip ro del default; sudo ip ro add default via 192.168.42.1

whereupon it now works correctly:

  $ ip ro ls
  default via 192.168.42.1 dev eth0 
  
I feel however I shouldn't have to do this, as wicd ought to have done
it itself, since that is what I asked it for.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.11.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages wicd depends on:
ii  wicd-cli [wicd-client]  1.7.4+tb2-4
ii  wicd-daemon             1.7.4+tb2-4
ii  wicd-gtk [wicd-client]  1.7.4+tb2-4

wicd recommends no packages.

wicd suggests no packages.

Versions of packages wicd-cli depends on:
ii  python       2.7.13-2
ii  wicd-daemon  1.7.4+tb2-4

Versions of packages wicd-cli recommends:
ii  sudo  1.8.20p2-1

Versions of packages wicd-gtk depends on:
ii  python         2.7.13-2
ii  python-glade2  2.24.0-5.1
ii  python-gtk2    2.24.0-5.1
ii  wicd-daemon    1.7.4+tb2-4

Versions of packages wicd-gtk recommends:
ii  gksu           2.0.2-9+b1
ii  python-notify  0.1.1-4

Versions of packages wicd-daemon depends on:
ii  adduser          3.115
ii  dbus             1.10.20-1
ii  debconf          1.5.63
ii  iproute2         4.9.0-1
ii  iputils-ping     3:20161105-1
ii  isc-dhcp-client  4.3.5-3
ii  lsb-base         9.20161125
ii  net-tools        1.60+git20161116.90da8a0-1
ii  psmisc           23.1-1
ii  python           2.7.13-2
ii  python-dbus      1.2.4-1+b2
ii  python-gobject   3.22.0-2
ii  python-wicd      1.7.4+tb2-4
ii  wireless-tools   30~pre9-12+b1
ii  wpasupplicant    2:2.4-1

Versions of packages wicd-daemon recommends:
ii  rfkill                  0.5-1+b1
ii  wicd-cli [wicd-client]  1.7.4+tb2-4
ii  wicd-gtk [wicd-client]  1.7.4+tb2-4

Versions of packages wicd-daemon suggests:
ii  pm-utils  1.4.1-17

Versions of packages python-wicd depends on:
ii  python  2.7.13-2

-- debconf information:
* wicd/users:


-- 
Paul "LeoNerd" Evans

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