wpa_supplicant service fails to autostart on Fedora 8

[Reik Red]

Hmm, I found something that looks fishy. In my system,

S10network

is started before

S28wpa_supplicant

Since S10network starts both eth0 and wlan0 (in turn),
it makes sense that the subtask dhclient wlan0 fails,
because wlan0 cannot really be up before wpa_supplicant is.

Am I blowing smoke here? I'll be the first to admit that
I'm no expert on init, but this looks strange.

Hope someone can give a hint, I'm a bit lost here. Should wpa_supplicant
be started even before S10?

Side question: What is the generic method for making init verbose and saving
the output to a log file? Linux systems do not seem to do this by default.

Reik

Reik Red wrote:
> I have a similar problem as Robert had, but in my case updating
> to the latest does not help.
> 
> The main symptom is that ifup wlan0 (or equivalent) hangs during boot,
> because it is not able to get an IP address. After timing out and finishing
> the boot, I can run dhclient wlan0 and get the IP address. In fact,
> wlan0 itself is up already, just without an IP address.
> 
> I can't see anything in /var/log/wpa_supplicant.log, even with
> OTHER_ARGS=-d. However, I can see some of the -d output on the
> boot screen soon after the timeout.
> 
> By the way, what happened with the old -f -u options, is that relevant
> to my problem?
> 
> For completeness: I am bringup up eth0 as well during this process, but
> if I remove the cable it does not help on the wlan0 problem, and result
> is the same.
> 
> Reik
> 
> Dan Williams wrote:
>> On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 10:43 +0100, Robert Allerstorfer wrote:
>>> On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, 11:10 GMT-05 Dan Williams wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 13:47 +0100, Robert Allerstorfer wrote:
>>>>> I am trying to activate the wlan0 device automatically at booting
>>>>> Fedora 8. It should associate to my WPA2-personal protected Access
>>>>> Point. Since NetworkManager 0.7 svn3109 does NOT work for this, I
>>>>> don't start that service. Instead, I have set the wpa_supplicant
>>>>> service to autostart. This will run
>>>>> 'wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -iwlan0
>>>>> -Dwext -B -u -f -d'
>>>>> which fails while booting:
>>>>> [root at localhost ~]# cat /var/log/wpa_supplicant.log
>>>>> Could not acquire the system bus.
>>>> You're probably interested in Fedora bug #244029.  That's the best 
>>>> place
>>>> to track your issue since it's a Fedora specific issue.
>>>> Dan
>>> OK, with the official current wpa_supplicant package for Fedora 8
>>> (0.5.7-16.fc8), wpa_supplicant cannot be autostarted as a service.
>>> Updating wpa_supplicant to version 0.5.7-20.fc8 currently available
>>> from Fedora's updates-testing repo solves this problem:
>>
>> Now that it's gone through some testing, it's likely time to push it to
>> plain updates.
>>
>> dan
>>
>>> [root at localhost ~]# yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update 
>>> wpa_supplicant
>>> [root at localhost ~]# rpm -q --changelog wpa_supplicant | more
>>> * Mon Dec 24 2007 Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> - 0.5.7-20
>>> - Fix LSB initscript header to ensure 'messagebus' is started first 
>>> (rh #244029)
>>>
>>> * Thu Dec 06 2007 Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> - 0.5.7-19
>>> - Fix two leaks when signalling state and scan results (rh #408141)
>>>
>>> * Mon Dec 03 2007 Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> - 0.5.7-18
>>> - Add logrotate config file (rh #404181)
>>> - Add new LSB initscript header to initscript with correct deps (rh 
>>> #244029)
>>> - Move other runtime arguments to /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant
>>>
>>> * Thu Nov 15 2007 Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> - 0.5.7-17
>>> - Start after messagebus service (rh #385191)
>>> - Fix initscript 'condrestart' command (rh #217281)
>>>
>>> After doing
>>> [root at localhost ~]# chkconfig wpa_supplicant off
>>> [root at localhost ~]# chkconfig wpa_supplicant on
>>>
>>> the startup priority will change from 12 to 28, after the messagebus
>>> service:
>>> [root at localhost ~]# ls -l /etc/rc.d/rc*.d/S*wpa_supplicant
>>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2007-12-31 14:16 
>>> /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/S28wpa_supplicant -> ../init.d/wpa_supplicant
>>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2007-12-31 14:16 
>>> /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S28wpa_supplicant -> ../init.d/wpa_supplicant
>>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2007-12-31 14:16 
>>> /etc/rc.d/rc4.d/S28wpa_supplicant -> ../init.d/wpa_supplicant
>>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2007-12-31 14:16 
>>> /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S28wpa_supplicant -> ../init.d/wpa_supplicant
>>>
>>> With autostarting the wpa_supplicant service and NOT using
>>> NetworkManager, establishing a wireless connection to a WPA2 protected
>>> access point with a Broadcom card works for the first time for me on
>>> Fedora :-)
>>>
>>> rob.
>>>
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