lost connectivity until "wpa_cli reassociate" is issued

[Jouni Malinen]

On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 11:04:34AM -0700, David Mosberger wrote:
> We are seeing a curious issue with wpa_supplicant (both version 1.0
> and 2.5) where WLAN connectivity sometimes gets stuck until a
> "reassociate" command is issued.  wpa_cli status does not indicate any
> problems as far as I can see

> The problem happens with no discernible pattern.  Usually it takes
> hours or days before it appears.
> Sometimes the problem fixes itself, usually after a few hours.
> 
> I'm not overly familiar with wpa_supplicant or WPA in general, so any
> tips for how to debug this
> further would be appreciated.

How do you start wpa_supplicant? It would be helpful to get debug output
from wpa_supplicant for a case when this happens, e.g., by adding -dt on
the command line (DEBUG verbosity with timestamps) and keeping the
process on foreground while directing stdout output to a file.

-- 
Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA