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

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 04 May 2019 23:14:29 +0200

Hi,

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

> On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 05:32:23PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

[...]

>> 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?
>>
>
> It displays
>
> Service wpa-supplicant is not running.
> Service wpa-supplicant could not be started.

Sorry, to be complete, I should have asked you to first kill the
“dangling” wpa_supplicant process:

  pkill -f wpa_supplicant
  pgrep -fa wpa_supplicant  # make sure it’s really dead
  while herd restart wpa-supplicant; do : ; done

Could you try this?

TIA,
Ludo’.