From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sat May 04 17:34:15 2019 Received: (at 35550) by debbugs.gnu.org; 4 May 2019 21:34:15 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52525 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hN2IR-00060A-GI for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 04 May 2019 17:34:15 -0400 Received: from pelzflorian.de ([5.45.111.108]:41050 helo=mail.pelzflorian.de) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hN2IO-000601-U7 for 35550@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 04 May 2019 17:34:14 -0400 Received: from pelzflorian.localdomain (unknown [5.45.111.108]) by mail.pelzflorian.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2DB75360038; Sat, 4 May 2019 23:34:03 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=pelzflorian.de; s=mail; t=1557005643; bh=UwfAO2vn/fLulyY3T3XfUVSnQ/9v6kdCrP2grGn8FZk=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To; b=yhp5VqhxlvDPblu07769xLGmdOns4Y2GvcE48JjDfQu3HhMxwZCgZbugHkywFkXlc ELVKMe3s6FjQueYC43C3RHZBRUx2KyCqSsQcaNvAB5gik+sM16bzQ4YXBCMyhGLEMd AUZePrwcnfEcZfsgYZziMUHsk1f9M9ovQ2OK+2lo= Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 23:34:03 +0200 From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Subject: Re: bug#35550: Installer: wpa_supplicant fails to start Message-ID: <20190504213402.2pdyieijtpejpi4p@pelzflorian.localdomain> References: <87sgtv8hcz.fsf@gnu.org> <16a80e1461c.1292821a927951.2710363725930741694@zoho.com> <87k1f64c5o.fsf@gnu.org> <20190504140753.6wjgctw6ird7xj2b@pelzflorian.localdomain> <877eb62q2g.fsf@gnu.org> <20190504154743.i5sv6spf4jsbxruu@pelzflorian.localdomain> <878svl2a8a.fsf@gnu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <878svl2a8a.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: NeoMutt/20180716 X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 35550 Cc: sirgazil@zoho.com, 35550 <35550@debbugs.gnu.org> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 11:14:29PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi, > > "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" 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 pgrep does not display anything. > while herd restart wpa-supplicant; do : ; done > > Could you try this? > Now it displays Service wpa-supplicant has been stopped. Service wpa-supplicant has been started. again and again incessantly, one immediately after the other with no time in between. By the way, the network connection only failed sometimes when I tested Guix 1.0.0, but since I started using a Guix disk image from a more recent Guix, wpa-supplicant apparently always fails. Strange. Regards, Florian