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Installer: wpa_supplicant fails to start

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Message #31 received at 35550 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: sirgazil <at> zoho.com, 35550 <35550 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#35550: Installer: wpa_supplicant fails to start
Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 17:47:44 +0200

On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 05:32:23PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> At this point, could you also check:
> 
>   3b. The output of “pgrep -fa wpa_supplicant”.
> 

root <at> gnu ~# pgrep -fa wpa_supplicant
481 /gnu/store/ifqy2dr2hbqplv14k50dzprw3k2bz9m9-wpa-supplicant-2.7/sbin/wpa_supplicant -P/var/run/wpa_supplicant.pid -B -s -u


> 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?
>

It displays

Service wpa-supplicant is not running.
Service wpa-supplicant could not be started.

after and again and again every approximately 5 seconds.

Regards,
Florian

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