diff -up wicd-1.7.0/wicd/wicd-daemon.py.orig wicd-1.7.0/wicd/wicd-daemon.py
--- wicd-1.7.0/wicd/wicd-daemon.py.orig	2010-01-14 23:49:11.000000000 -0500
+++ wicd-1.7.0/wicd/wicd-daemon.py	2012-03-26 15:24:27.863044957 -0400
@@ -1801,6 +1801,7 @@ def main(argv):
     bus = dbus.SystemBus()
     wicd_bus = dbus.service.BusName('org.wicd.daemon', bus=bus)
     daemon = WicdDaemon(wicd_bus, auto_connect=auto_connect)
+    child_pid = None
     if not no_poll:
         child_pid = Popen([misc.find_path("python"), "-O", 
                           os.path.join(wpath.daemon, "monitor.py")],