wicd-curses crashes after successful connection

Version: wicd-curses-uimod (using wicd 1.7.0)
Linux distribution: Backtrack 5 R3 (Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS - lucid)

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FIX:

change line 156 (or in the newer version line 169) from:

"strength = misc.to_unicode(daemon.FormatSignalForPrinting(strength))"
to
"strength = misc.to_unicode(daemon.FormatSignalForPrinting(str(strength)))"

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Details of the error:

After wicd-curses has successfully connected to a network it crashes giving:

DBus failure! This is most likely caused by the wicd daemon stopping while wicd-curses is running. Please restart the daemon, and then restart wicd-curses.

DBus failure! This is most likely caused by the wicd daemon stopping while wicd-curses is running. Please restart the daemon, and then restart wicd-curses.

DBus failure! This is most likely caused by the wicd daemon stopping while wicd-curses is running. Please restart the daemon, and then restart wicd-curses.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py", line 1063, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py", line 995, in main
    ui.run_wrapper(run)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/urwid/raw_display.py", line 234, in run_wrapper
    return fn()
  File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py", line 88, in wrapper
    return func(*args, **kargs)
  File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py", line 1003, in run
    app = appGUI()
  File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py", line 591, in __init__
    self.update_status()
  File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py", line 88, in wrapper
    return func(*args, **kargs)
  File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py", line 734, in update_status
    self.set_status):
  File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py", line 88, in wrapper
    return func(*args, **kargs)
  File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py", line 156, in check_for_wireless
    strength = misc.to_unicode(daemon.FormatSignalForPrinting(strength))
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/proxies.py", line 140, in __call__
    **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/connection.py", line 620, in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Python.TypeError: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/service.py", line 702, in _message_cb
    retval = candidate_method(self, *args, **keywords)
  File "/usr/share/wicd/daemon/wicd-daemon.py", line 320, in FormatSignalForPrinting
    return (signal + "%")
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'dbus.Int32' and 'str'