solved: Re: wpa_supplicant: /sbin/wpa_supplicant daemon failed to start
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 10:36:15AM +0200, Gerard ROBIN wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 05:33:12PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:33:12 -0700
> > From: Gregory Nowak <greg@gregn.net>
> > To: Gerard ROBIN <g.robin3@free.fr>
> > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: wpa_supplicant: /sbin/wpa_supplicant daemon failed to start
> > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 01:00:36PM +0200, Gerard ROBIN wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > (I use wheezy xfce)
> > > I'm not subscribed to debian-user but I have a problem that looks like a
> > > bug but I do not know which package is concerned.
> > > After last upgrade I get this message at boot time:
> > >
> > > -------------------------------------8<-------------------------------------
> > > Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:19:7d:02:46:aa
> > > Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:19:7d:02:46:aa
> > > Sending on Socket/fallback
> > > DHCPRELEASE on wlan0 to 192.168.0.254 port 67
> > > wpa_supplicant: /sbin/wpa_supplicant daemon failed to start
> > > run-parts: /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wpasupplicant exited with return code 1
> > >
> > > -------------------------------------8<-------------------------------------
> > > DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
> > > receive_packet failed on wlan0: Network is down
> > > -------------------------------------8<-------------------------------------
> >
> > What do you get in the logs when this happens as far as wpasupplicant
> > (E.G. /var/log/daemon.log)?
> >
> > Greg
>
> it recorded errors:
>
> Oct 15 11:24:51 mybox avahi-daemon[3473]: Withdrawing address record for 2a01:e35:2e81:500:219:7dff:fe02:46aa on wlan0.
> Oct 15 11:24:51 mybox charon: 16[KNL] 2a01:e35:2e81:500:219:7dff:fe02:46aa disappeared from wlan0
> Oct 15 11:24:51 mybox charon: 16[KNL] fe80::219:7dff:fe02:46aa disappeared from wlan0
> Oct 15 11:24:51 mybox dhclient: receive_packet failed on wlan0: Network is down
> Oct 15 11:24:51 mybox wpa_supplicant[12248]: ctrl_iface exists and seems to be in use - cannot override it
> Oct 15 11:24:51 mybox wpa_supplicant[12248]: Delete '/var/run/wpa_supplicant/wlan0' manually if it is not used anymore
> Oct 15 11:24:51 mybox wpa_supplicant[12248]: Failed to initialize control interface '/var/run/wpa_supplicant'.#012You may have another wpa_supplicant process already running or the file was#012left by an unclean termination of wpa_supplicant in which case you will need#012to manually remove this file before starting wpa_supplicant again.
> Oct 15 11:24:51 mybox dhclient: receive_packet failed on wlan0: Network is down
>
> but after reboot my box the problem is gone ? Now this works fine ...
Glad to hear everything got sorted out. I'm sending a cc to
debian-users so everyone there knows this is resolved.
Greg
>
> Sorry for the inconvenience.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> --
> Gérard
>
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