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LazaRuss

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Registered: 2013-07-13

Posts: 12

Wireless issues

Hi Guys!

Ever since running pacman -Syu a couple of days ago when I select my networks ssid from the wifi-menu I get the below error:

Job for netctl@wls1\x2dVFI_GUEST.service failed. See 'systemctl status netctl@wls1\x2dVFI_GUEST.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.

When I run

systemctl status 'netctl@wls1\x2dVFI_GUEST.service'

I get

 
● netctl@wls1\x2dVFI_GUEST.service - Networking for netctl profile wls1-VFI_GUEST
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/netctl@.service; static)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2014-05-03 10:07:54 BST; 5min ago
     Docs: man:netctl.profile(5)
  Process: 1071 ExecStart=/usr/lib/network/network start %I (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 1071 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

When I run

journalctl -xn

I get

-- Logs begin at Fri 2013-07-12 06:39:47 BST, end at Sat 2014-05-03 09:41:52 BST
May 03 09:41:50 lazatop systemd[535]: Reached target Paths.
-- Subject: Unit UNIT has finished start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- 
-- Unit UNIT has finished starting up.
-- 
-- The start-up result is done.
May 03 09:41:50 lazatop systemd[535]: Starting Timers.
-- Subject: Unit UNIT has begun with start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- 
-- Unit UNIT has begun starting up.
May 03 09:41:50 lazatop systemd[535]: Reached target Timers.
-- Subject: Unit UNIT has finished start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- 
-- Unit UNIT has finished starting up.
-- 
-- The start-up result is done.
lines 1-23...skipping...
-- Logs begin at Fri 2013-07-12 06:39:47 BST, end at Sat 2014-05-03 09:41:52 BST. --
May 03 09:41:50 lazatop systemd[535]: Reached target Paths.
-- Subject: Unit UNIT has finished start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- 
-- Unit UNIT has finished starting up.
-- 
-- The start-up result is done.
May 03 09:41:50 lazatop systemd[535]: Starting Timers.
-- Subject: Unit UNIT has begun with start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- 
-- Unit UNIT has begun starting up.
May 03 09:41:50 lazatop systemd[535]: Reached target Timers.
-- Subject: Unit UNIT has finished start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- 
-- Unit UNIT has finished starting up.
-- 
-- The start-up result is done.
May 03 09:41:50 lazatop systemd[535]: Starting Sockets.
-- Subject: Unit UNIT has begun with start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- 
-- Unit UNIT has begun starting up.
May 03 09:41:50 lazatop systemd[535]: Reached target Sockets.
-- Subject: Unit UNIT has finished start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- 
-- Unit UNIT has finished starting up.
-- 
-- The start-up result is done.
May 03 09:41:50 lazatop systemd[535]: Starting Basic System.
-- Subject: Unit UNIT has begun with start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- 
-- Unit UNIT has begun starting up.
May 03 09:41:50 lazatop systemd[535]: Reached target Basic System.
-- Subject: Unit UNIT has finished start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- 
-- Unit UNIT has finished starting up.
-- 
-- The start-up result is done.
May 03 09:41:50 lazatop systemd[535]: Starting Default.
-- Subject: Unit UNIT has begun with start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- 
-- Unit UNIT has begun starting up.
May 03 09:41:50 lazatop systemd[535]: Reached target Default.
-- Subject: Unit UNIT has finished start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- 
-- Unit UNIT has finished starting up.
-- 
-- The start-up result is done.
May 03 09:41:50 lazatop systemd[535]: Startup finished in 144ms.
-- Subject: System start-up is now complete
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- 
-- All system services necessary queued for starting at boot have been
-- successfully started. Note that this does not mean that the machine is
-- now idle as services might still be busy with completing start-up.
-- 
-- Kernel start-up required KERNEL_USEC microseconds.
-- 
-- Initial RAM disk start-up required INITRD_USEC microseconds.
-- 
-- Userspace start-up required 144071 microseconds.

There was an error in here about pulse audio bluetooth which I disabled to make sure it wasnt interfering with anything but this didnt help. Other than that I dont see any errors in here.

My ethernet connection works fine so its just wireless.

I tried to downgrade my netctl but this didnt make any difference, I have upgraded again since.

I am pretty new to linux and have exausted all my trouble shooting skills, can someone suggest what else I can check please?

Thanks

Last edited by LazaRuss (2014-05-03 07:32:33)

ondoho

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Registered: 2013-04-30

Posts: 692

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Re: Wireless issues

at a glance, i did not see anything relevant in the journalctl you posted.

you should go through the wiki for netctl again and see if some files have changed.

i don't like the backslash ("\") in the service's name, has it always been there?

fwiw, i'm getting a similar error message when my wlan is unavailable (switched off).

LazaRuss

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Registered: 2013-07-13

Posts: 12

Re: Wireless issues

Hi Ondoho, thanks for your reply

I have already gone through the wiki and all it really explains is how to setup a profile. I have deleted the old profile and got wifi-menu to re generate it which didnt help and I also created a new profile using the example profile and manually started that using netctl start profile, but the same thing happened. I have tried this on 2 wifi networks so far and the same thing happens on both, yet when I connect the laptop directly to the router it connects fine, so I assume its an issue with my wireless card maybe?

I am unaware if the \ was in the services name before or not im afraid. This was for the automatically generated profile by wifi-menu, my manual config file does not have the \

EDIT: the wireless adapter is using the ath9k driver if that means anything? i notice a few people had issues with this driver but this was a while ago now.

Last edited by LazaRuss (2014-05-03 15:21:28)

manu49

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From: LE FUILET - FRANCE

Registered: 2014-05-03

Posts: 2

Re: Wireless issues

Hi everybady,

I confirm that I have the same problem, after a pacman -Syu the wireless connection was down and I have this message in my dmesg : "wlp6s0: deauthenticating from "mac address" by local choice (reason=3)".
I restart the service with "netctl start wlp6s0-wireless", after log in and the network is on but it's not the right way.

I think there is a problem with a new package.

Thanks
Manu

ondoho

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Re: Wireless issues

@lazaruss:
it seems you tried to get into the problem.
right now i cannot tell you what the problem is; you should look more inside files, and post output here; we cannot really help if you say "but it didn't work".
looking at dmesg might help, too.
but please don't post the complete output, try to filter out the relevant part. same with log files.
this will also help You to gain more insight into Your problem.

LazaRuss

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Registered: 2013-07-13

Posts: 12

Re: Wireless issues

Hi ondoho

Thanks for the advise, I understand it can be quite frustrating dealing with someone who isn't as familiar with linix as you are. If I knew what logs to look at I would post them. I will have a closer look at dmesg but do you have any recommendations what logs to look at other than dmesg?

Thanks for your help, it's much appreciated!

ondoho

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Re: Wireless issues

i'm not frustrated.
it's your problem, not mine.

try these:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless_Setup
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Netctl

and also read some general advice on how to post to linux forums. e.g. from my signature.

manu49

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From: LE FUILET - FRANCE

Registered: 2014-05-03

Posts: 2

Re: Wireless issues

Hi LazaRuss,

I solved my problem by disable IPV6 in the kernel options. I add this to my grub conf :

 GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet [b]ipv6.disable=1[/b]" 

After that wireless is ok at each reboot.

I don't know if it can help you.