Debian Bug report logs - #458115
wifi-radar: Crashes when no wireless interfaces are available

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: wifi-radar: Crashes when no wireless interfaces are available

Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:44:13 -0300

Package: wifi-radar
Version: 1.9.8-2
Severity: normal

wifi-radar crashes when no wireless devices are found:

% sudo wifi-radar
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/wifi-radar", line 1625, in ?
    set_network_device(INTERFACE)
  File "/usr/sbin/wifi-radar", line 127, in set_network_device
    INTERFACE = wireless_devices[0]
IndexError: list index out of range

After enabling the wireless interface, everything works ok.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-rc5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages wifi-radar depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.5.17       Debian configuration management sy
ii  dhcp3-client                3.0.6.dfsg-1 DHCP client
ii  python                      2.4.4-6      An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-gtk2                 2.12.0-2     Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii  wireless-tools              29-1         Tools for manipulating Linux Wirel

Versions of packages wifi-radar recommends:
ii  wpasupplicant        0.6.1~git20071119-1 Client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

-- debconf information excluded

Message #10 received at 458115@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Markus Matuszczak" <bimselmann@googlemail.com>

To: 458115@bugs.debian.org, 458890@bugs.debian.org

Subject: solution to auto detect wireless device

Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 15:04:40 +0100

change to line 125 in /usr/sbin/wifi-radar from

wireless_devices = [ (x[0:x.find(" ")])] for x in iwconfig_info if
("ESSID" in x)]

to

wireless_devices = [ (x[0:x.find(" ")])] for x in iwconfig_info if
("Mode" in x)]

now the auto-detect working ...

Message #15 received at 458115-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Patrick Winnertz <winnie@debian.org>

To: 458115-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#458115: fixed in wifi-radar 1.9.8-3

Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:32:11 +0000

Source: wifi-radar
Source-Version: 1.9.8-3

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
wifi-radar, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

wifi-radar_1.9.8-3.diff.gz
  to pool/main/w/wifi-radar/wifi-radar_1.9.8-3.diff.gz
wifi-radar_1.9.8-3.dsc
  to pool/main/w/wifi-radar/wifi-radar_1.9.8-3.dsc
wifi-radar_1.9.8-3_all.deb
  to pool/main/w/wifi-radar/wifi-radar_1.9.8-3_all.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 458115@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Patrick Winnertz <winnie@debian.org> (supplier of updated wifi-radar package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:26:06 +0100
Source: wifi-radar
Binary: wifi-radar
Architecture: source all
Version: 1.9.8-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Patrick Winnertz <winnie@debian.org>
Changed-By: Patrick Winnertz <winnie@debian.org>
Description: 
 wifi-radar - graphical utility for managing Wi-Fi profiles
Closes: 458115 458592 458890 458892
Changes: 
 wifi-radar (1.9.8-3) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Modified desktop file again. Forgot to add a -X to su-to-root
     (Closes: #458592)
   * Prevents wifi-radar from crashing when no wlan-device is available
     (Closes: #458115) (Closes: #458890)
   * Modified init script to use the correct path of the config file.
     (Closes: #458892)
Files: 
 3b5ebd8879cd69b18cc5454fdb4a7921 602 net extra wifi-radar_1.9.8-3.dsc
 e9efb2b33d95bdadf7435468d83500e9 8027 net extra wifi-radar_1.9.8-3.diff.gz
 e5a64408fb4be1a73496cf0659891f69 37944 net extra wifi-radar_1.9.8-3_all.deb

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