Error: "WICD Network Manager needs administrative priviledges"

[evans62]

I had to reinstall WICD to fix another problem, and now - every time I boot up, it asks me for my admin password. After I enter in the password, WICD doesn't appear to be running.

I have tried removing WICD and reinstalling it, but that didn't help.

I guess I could just reinstall the entire Kubuntu 10.10, but I would rather not do that.

Anyway, here is the log from WICD:

wicd initializing...
2011/01/05 02:04:54 :: ---------------------------
2011/01/05 02:04:54 :: wicd is version 1.7.0 552
2011/01/05 02:04:54 :: setting backend to external
2011/01/05 02:04:54 :: trying to load backend external
2011/01/05 02:04:54 :: successfully loaded backend external
2011/01/05 02:04:54 :: trying to load backend external
2011/01/05 02:04:54 :: successfully loaded backend external
2011/01/05 02:04:54 :: Automatically detected wireless interface wlan1
2011/01/05 02:04:54 :: setting wireless interface wlan1
2011/01/05 02:04:54 :: automatically detected wired interface eth0
2011/01/05 02:04:54 :: setting wired interface eth0
2011/01/05 02:04:54 :: setting wpa driver wext
2011/01/05 02:04:54 :: setting use global dns to False
2011/01/05 02:04:54 :: setting global dns
2011/01/05 02:04:54 :: global dns servers are None None None
2011/01/05 02:04:54 :: domain is None
2011/01/05 02:04:54 :: search domain is None
2011/01/05 02:04:54 :: setting automatically reconnect when connection drops True
2011/01/05 02:04:54 :: Setting dhcp client to 0
2011/01/05 02:04:54 :: Wireless configuration file found...
2011/01/05 02:04:54 :: Wired configuration file found...
2011/01/05 02:04:54 :: dhclient.conf.template not found, copying...
2011/01/05 02:04:54 :: Traceback (most recent call last):
2011/01/05 02:04:54 :: File "/usr/share/wicd/daemon/wicd-daemon.py", line 1843, in <module>
2011/01/05 02:04:54 :: main(sys.argv)
2011/01/05 02:04:54 :: File "/usr/share/wicd/daemon/wicd-daemon.py", line 1807, in main
2011/01/05 02:04:54 :: daemon = WicdDaemon(wicd_bus, auto_connect=auto_connect)
2011/01/05 02:04:54 :: File "/usr/share/wicd/daemon/wicd-daemon.py", line 115, in __init__
2011/01/05 02:04:54 :: self.ReadConfig()
2011/01/05 02:04:54 :: File "/usr/share/wicd/daemon/wicd-daemon.py", line 945, in ReadConfig
2011/01/05 02:04:54 :: shutil.copy(dhclient_conf + ".default", dhclient_conf)
2011/01/05 02:04:54 :: File "/usr/lib/python2.6/shutil.py", line 84, in copy
2011/01/05 02:04:54 :: copyfile(src, dst)
2011/01/05 02:04:54 :: File "/usr/lib/python2.6/shutil.py", line 50, in copyfile
2011/01/05 02:04:54 :: with open(src, 'rb') as fsrc:
2011/01/05 02:04:54 :: IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/wicd/dhclient.conf.template.default'

[surftux]

Re: Error: &quot;WICD Network Manager needs administrative priviledges&quot;

hello how have you removed the software wicd and have you also removed the complete configuration files it is important that the appliation completely is removed including the configuration files. I use synaptic instead of kpackage.

What is happening when you go back to the network manager have you then connection, please wait before you reinstall Kubuntu it is better to find out what is going wrong and how can we learning to solve problems for now and in the future. Please send an new output to the forum.