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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2013-0682
2013-03-16 17:15:03
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Name : wicd
Product : Fedora EPEL 6
Version : 1.7.0
Release : 4.el6
URL :
http://wicd.sourceforge.net/
Summary : Wireless and wired network connection manager
Description :
Wicd is designed to give the user as much control over behavior of network
connections as possible. Every network, both wired and wireless, has its
own profile with its own configuration options and connection behavior.
Wicd will try to automatically connect only to networks the user specifies
it should try, with a preference first to a wired network, then to wireless.
This package provides the architecture-dependent components of wicd.
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Update Information:
This fixes a bug in wicd-daemon.py where it fails to wait for the dhclient child process
and then you have to deal with zombies. And, as we know from The Walking Dead, that is an
undesirable situation.
Also a Debian bug:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=537195
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #893807 - zombie process
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=893807
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update wicd' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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