[pkg-wicd-maint] Bug#909142: wicd-curses: Right-arrow on first wlan errors wicd-curses.py

[Axel Beckert]

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Hi Greg,

Greg Masters wrote:
> Version: 1.7.4+tb2-6

JFTR: That's the version currently in unstable.

> I am working with the newest version of wicd-curses installed from .deb 
> manually using dpkg.  I installed wicd_1.7.4+tb2-6all.deb, and wicd-curses, 
> python-wicd, wicd-daemon all of the same version number.

According to the System Information you are working on Debian Stretch.

That combination is not really supported.

> The latest are not in the repos.

They are in the unstable and testing repos.

> They supposedly fixed similar errors as in debian 
> bug 816597.

Yes. That bug report was a duplicate of #814090.

> This errors flag lines 97, 1149, 1162, 1040 in 
> /usr/share/wicd/wicd-curses-py.
> And file /usr/share/wicd/curses/netentry_curses.py, line 503 and 544.

Please post the full backtrace you're getting. (At least if I can't
reproduce this quickly.)

> Last line after crash is ValueError: dbus.Boolean(True) is not in list
> 
> On invoking wicd-curses, any attempt to right-arrow on the FIRST
> LISTED wireless net will crash.

Do you have "always show wired network" on or off?

I usually have it on, so that case might have slipped through since it
might only happen if that setting is set to "off".

> If the highlight bar is moved (down arrow) to the second or third
> wireless net, then right-arrow brings up the config screen as
> expected.

Ok, will check if I can reproduce this issue on Debian Unstable, too.

		Regards, Axel
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