CentOS - Jul 2015 - wicd problem 3: wicd blocking 1st attempt connection for firefox and yumex

greetings,

wicd is preventing firefox and yumex to connect to internet.

when i first try to connect to a web site with firefox, i get err message;

  Unable to connect

when i click [Try Again], connection is made. all further connection
attempts are ok.

when i try to run yumex, i get error message;

   Not connected to a network.
   Do you want to continue

selecting [Yes] continues starting yumex, but i have active repositories.

when i run yum cl command;

  ]$ yum check-update
  Loaded plugins: aliases, changelog, downloadonly, fastestmirror, presto,
              : refresh-packagekit, security, tmprepo, verify, versionlock
  Determining fastest mirrors
  Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&
  arch=x86_64&repo=os error was
  14: PYCURL ERROR 6 - "Couldn't resolve host
'mirrorlist.centos.org'"
  Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base

when i run yum cl command again;

  ]$ yum check-update
  Loaded plugins: aliases, changelog, downloadonly, fastestmirror, presto,
              : refresh-packagekit, security, tmprepo, verify, versionlock
  Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
  epel/metalink                                           |  13 kB     00:00

which indicates yum has made connection.

a 4th problem i see with 'wicd' is in post "Subject: wicd
problem";

     4: wicd restarts itself when as root user making terminal commands


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