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stozi

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Registered: 2010-03-02

Posts: 149

[Solved] after failed network setup netctl-auto fails to start

After trying and failing connect to my university network netctl-auto stopped working. There is no competing network manager installed nor running. Any time I start or restart the service:

# systemctl start netctl-auto@wlp2s0.service
Job for netctl-auto@wlp2s0.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status netctl-auto@wlp2s0.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

$ systemctl status netctl-auto@wlp2s0.service
● netctl-auto@wlp2s0.service - Automatic wireless network connection using netctl profiles
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/netctl-auto@.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: inactive (dead)
     Docs: man:netctl.special(7)

# systemctl
[...]
● netctl-auto@wlp2s0.service                  loaded failed failed    Automatic wireless network connection using netctl profiles
[...]

Last edited by stozi (2015-09-15 13:11:02)

Treefeed

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Registered: 2015-09-12

Posts: 5

Re: [Solved] after failed network setup netctl-auto fails to start

netctl-auto@wlp2s0.service
systemctl status netctl-auto@wl42s0.service

is it missword, or two different interfaces?

stozi

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Registered: 2010-03-02

Posts: 149

Re: [Solved] after failed network setup netctl-auto fails to start

That was just a type here. Anyway I found that while $ systemctl status netctl-auto@wlp2s0.service will tell you something, # systemctl status netctl-auto@wlp2s0.service will tell you exactly what the problem is... another typo in a profile.