Subject: Re: bug#35550: Installer: wpa_supplicant fails to start

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 04 May 2019 17:32:23 +0200

Hi Florian,

"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <[email-masked]> skribis:

>> Could you also:
>> 
>>   1. Let the installation image boot;
>> 
>>   2. Confirm with ‘herd status wpa-supplicant’ that the ‘wpa-supplicant’
>>      service is marked as stopped (failed to start);
>>
>
> $ herd status wpa-supplicant
> Status of wpa-supplicant:
>   It is stopped.
>   It is enabled.
>   Provides (wpa-supplicant).
>   Requires (user-processes dbus-system loopback syslogd).
>   Conflicts with ().
>   Will be respawned.
>
>
>
>>   3. Show the contents /var/run/wpa_supplicant.pid, and check whether
>>      they correspond to the PID of a running ‘wpa_supplicant’ process.
>>
>
> There is no such file.

At this point, could you also check:

  3b. The output of “pgrep -fa wpa_supplicant”.

The PID file was probably removed by the second attempt to start the
‘wpa-supplicant’ service.

Could you also try running (as root):

  while herd restart wpa-supplicant; do : ; done

to see the frequency at which the service fails to start?

Thanks!

Ludo’.