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alexmat

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Registered: 2004-12-31

Posts: 100

netcfg fails on boot, but works if restarted

netcfg used to work fine, but now I have to reconnect after a fresh boot.

$ netcfg -r wlan0 
 > Profile not connected
:: wlan0 up                                                                               [BUSY] 
ctrl_iface exists and seems to be in use - cannot override it
Delete '/run/wpa_supplicant/wlan0' manually if it is not used anymore
Failed to initialize control interface '/run/wpa_supplicant'.
You may have another wpa_supplicant process already running or the file was
left by an unclean termination of wpa_supplicant in which case you will need
to manually remove this file before starting wpa_supplicant again.

 > wpa_supplicant did not start, possible configuration error
                                                                                                   [FAIL] 
$ netcfg -r wlan0 
 > Profile not connected
:: wlan0 up                                                                               [DONE] 

Any idea what could be causing this? I have net-auto-wireless in my daemons list.

Last edited by alexmat (2012-06-10 14:15:28)

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: netcfg fails on boot, but works if restarted

show us your DAEMONS array. You probably are trying to start a network related daemon before the network is up

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alexmat

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Registered: 2004-12-31

Posts: 100

Re: netcfg fails on boot, but works if restarted

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng !network crond dbus net-auto-wired net-auto-wireless @acpid @alsa @openntpd)

Firestone

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From: Amsterdam

Registered: 2009-07-26

Posts: 20

Re: netcfg fails on boot, but works if restarted

Do you have multiple profiles that use the same interface? I experienced similar problems as of last week(see https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1111884). In my case, the backgrounding of both profiles caused race conditions, leading the to issue you described.

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Wait, auto-wireless does not use profiles, right... Never mind me then.
Can you provide a dmesg grep on your driver and on your interface?

Last edited by Firestone (2012-06-12 14:01:18)

punkeroso

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From: Rome, Italy

Registered: 2007-01-19

Posts: 105

Re: netcfg fails on boot, but works if restarted

I'm experiencing this since I use arch on my notebook https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=128871
My only solution is to delete manually /var/run/wpa_supplicant/wlan0 and start the deamon.

spikeh

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Registered: 2012-04-14

Posts: 33

Re: netcfg fails on boot, but works if restarted

I'm experiencing the same problem using net-auto-wireless in my DAEMONS array. Once booted into GNOME, netcfg doesn't think it's connected to anything. First manual attempt will give the wpa_supplicant error and second manual attempt will work.

This seems to be periodic; some boots work fine while others don't. Could this be related to the AP?

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chibby

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Registered: 2012-07-10

Posts: 19

Re: netcfg fails on boot, but works if restarted

...
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Wait, auto-wireless does not use profiles, right... Never mind me then.
Can you provide a dmesg grep on your driver and on your interface?

where else does it get network details and passwords from? my netcfg auto-wl just tries my profiles i guess..

@topic: (only if i'm not wrong - otherwise: nevermind) please post your profile and /etc/conf.d/netcfg

gdea73

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Registered: 2012-07-16

Posts: 34

Re: netcfg fails on boot, but works if restarted

I have the same problem, but using systemd instead of rc.conf.
How do I fix this?

skunktrader

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

Posts: 1,679

Re: netcfg fails on boot, but works if restarted

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=151662