I ran netpkg upgrade in a snapshot mirror... ups...
then when restarted after loogin wicd aked me the root password the a window shos wicd error cannot connect to dbus then another window says wicd daemon its shouting down...

I try to open the network manager and nothing

Then I open a terminal:
# su
password: ...
# wicd

and it works...

so how do I stop the error messages and the password questions?
I tried follow this instructions:
http://support.zenwalk.org/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=39242&p=156191&hilit=wicd+dbus#p156191
and downgrade wicd 1.7.1 to 1.7.0 but no results
everything else looks fine... I gess

check in
/etc/rc.d/rc.wicd
what kind of file is rc.wicd
it should be a shell script if you find that is not is just an empty text
pick up from the pkg the good one
extract the pkg
in etc you will find the original rc.wicd

No problems till when I did this.
Anyway you know how to start wicd in case.
For the moment till when they don't find the reason why?
For the rest is working good.

mi /etc/rc.d/rc.wicd file is a shell script and still asks me a password and shows me a dbus error.
If you ask me it looks like the dbus daemon starts after wicd daemon. I tried looking in start up services but whit no success.

I had at first boot that problem and after I find that strange thing
never more.
There is one difference in my system from snapshot, I'm using
sysvinit 2.88-72.1
I don't know where you can find it.
Anyway check all rc.d.
, mostly rc.d services and where you find network manager change to wicd.
If you have already done I don't have any more ideas.

sorry
sysvinit 2.86-70.2
and you find in current

I changed netmanager for wicd in the scripts rc.postinstall, rc.0 and rc.services.didn't work, and donwgraded sysvinit to your ver. and didn't worked either.

So now what? It will be fixed eventually whit an upgrade?

Thanks for the help

I just tried, for fun.

On snapshot,
I downloaded wicd
killed NetworkManager
removepkg NetworkManager-pptp-0.9.2.0-i486-72.1, NetworkManager-openvpn-0.9.2.0-i486-72.1, NetworkManager-0.9.2.0-i486-72.1
installed wicd
started wicd service(from terminal as root "service start wicd")
started wicd-client(Menu-Run Program)
edited rc.0, rc6, rc.services
rc.0: /etc/rc.d/rc.wicd stop
rc.6: /etc/rc.d/rc.wicd stop
rc.services:if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.wicd ]; then
rc.services: . /etc/rc.d/rc.wicd start

and all works, also after reboot without error.

fun for fun in my system works also whit network manager installed.
I mean once I kill wicd I can start NM
Can you check whit netpkg if you still have to activate some new config?
I did install first the tar that I download direct from
https://launchpad.net/wicd
wicd.1.7.1.tar.gz
then I did use the new zenwalk pkg
In both cases at first boot I had to run as root wicd or wicd start
but after that no more problems.
On a fresh install there is also another "problem" it ask for
host and domain, if you want to use dhcp etc.
And in my system I have that problem whit rc.d/wicd that I
had already explain. The fun is that even if I let there the text file
and I write wicd start it works.
Try to remove all NM pkg wicd sysinit
reinstall wicd and sysvinit 2.86 check if you have to activate new config.

I checked if I had not updated .new files, and I had, I updated all except rc.wicd because the .new was the empty, rebooted and got error again.
Then I tried:
su
service start wicd

started wicd-client(Menu-Run Program)

and checked that my rc. files did not have the "networkmanager " string

reboot

and problem solved
It doesn't ask for the password anymore and no errors
Thanks for all

only one question left:
what was the difference between running "service start wicd" and editing the rc. files?

I though editing the rc. files should have been enough.

Pick up new pkg
you should find in snapshot
wicd-1.7.1-72.2
at boot the system read the sevices that have to start /etc/rc.d
wicd start .... etc is started by root anytime