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FreakyCheeseMan

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Registered: 2013-05-21

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Netctl Profile does not exist or is not readable

Any attempt I make to use netctl throws

Profile '/etc/netctl/wlp3s0-NETGEAR52' does not exist or is not readable

wifi-menu, however, works just fine. netctl list produces

$ netctl list
* wlp3s0-NETGEAR52
  wireless-wpa

A list of /etc/netctl shows

$ ls -l /etc/netctl/
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 17 01:27 examples
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 17 01:27 hooks
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 17 01:27 interfaces
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root  426 Oct 31 09:50 wireless-wpa
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root  204 Oct 31 09:33 wlp3s0-NETGEAR52

The profile in question looks like:

Description='Automatically generated profile by wifi-menu'
Interface=wlp3s0
Connection=wireless
Security=wpa
ESSID=NETGEAR52
IP=dhcp
Key=\"************************* 

systemctl's status info

$ systemctl status netctl@wireless\x2dwpa.service
● netctl@wirelessx2dwpa.service - Networking for netctl profile wirelessx2dwpa
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/netctl@.service; static; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: inactive (dead)
     Docs: man:netctl.profile(5)

And some stuff about my wifi.

 iwconfig
enp0s25   no wireless extensions.

lo        no wireless extensions.

wlp3s0    IEEE 802.11abgn  ESSID:"NETGEAR52"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 20:E5:2A:3F:58:21   
          Bit Rate=2 Mb/s   Tx-Power=22 dBm   
          Retry short limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:on
          Link Quality=68/70  Signal level=-42 dBm  
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:15   Missed beacon:0

03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 7265 (rev 59)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Dual Band Wireless-AC 7265
        Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
        Kernel modules: iwlwifi

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Netctl Profile does not exist or is not readable

Have you tried (re)moving the profile then using wifi-menu to generate a fresh one?

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dcdriving

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Re: Netctl Profile does not exist or is not readable

Also, remove the dash in the profile name just to rule it out?  I had this issue and remember removing the dash as I was doing something wrong with the escaped character in the profile name.  https://github.com/joukewitteveen/netctl/issues/66

FreakyCheeseMan

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Re: Netctl Profile does not exist or is not readable

Have you tried (re)moving the profile then using wifi-menu to generate a fresh one?

Yeah, as well as editing the one from /examples.

Also, remove the dash in the profile name just to rule it out?  I had this issue and remember removing the dash as I was doing something wrong with the escaped character in the profile name.

Tried that, no luck.

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Netctl Profile does not exist or is not readable

Any attempt I make to use netctl throws

Profile '/etc/netctl/wlp3s0-NETGEAR52' does not exist or is not readable

Please post the *exact* commands used.

Please also post the output of:

systemctl list-unit-files|grep enabled

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FreakyCheeseMan

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Re: Netctl Profile does not exist or is not readable

Please post the *exact* commands used.

I've tried it a couple of different ways:

$ sudo netctl enable /etc/netctl/wlp3s0NETGEAR52 
Profile '/etc/netctl/wlp3s0NETGEAR52' does not exist or is not readable

For reasons unknown to me, if I use start rather than enable, it logs the problem to the journal rather than dumping it to the console:

$ sudo netctl start /etc/netctl/wlp3s0NETGEAR52 
Job for netctl@-etc-netctl-wlp3s0NETGEAR52.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status netctl@-etc-netctl-wlp3s0NETGEAR52.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. 

journalctl -xe gives:

-- Unit netctl@-etc-netctl-wlp3s0NETGEAR52.service has begun starting up.
Nov 01 12:14:34 architecture network[7350]: Profile '/etc/netctl/wlp3s0NETGEAR52' does not exist or is not readable
Nov 01 12:14:34 architecture systemd[1]: netctl@-etc-netctl-wlp3s0NETGEAR52.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Nov 01 12:14:34 architecture systemd[1]: Failed to start Networking for netctl profile /etc/netctl/wlp3s0NETGEAR52.
-- Subject: Unit netctl@-etc-netctl-wlp3s0NETGEAR52.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- 
-- Unit netctl@-etc-netctl-wlp3s0NETGEAR52.service has failed.
-- 
-- The result is failed.
Nov 01 12:14:34 architecture systemd[1]: netctl@-etc-netctl-wlp3s0NETGEAR52.service: Unit entered failed state.
Nov 01 12:14:34 architecture systemd[1]: netctl@-etc-netctl-wlp3s0NETGEAR52.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 01 12:14:34 architecture polkitd[493]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-process:7344:8865220 (system bus name :1.19, object path /org/freedeskto
Nov 01 12:14:34 architecture sudo[7340]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root

I should stress that wifi-menu works just fine, both when first creating a profile and when reading one it's already made.

Please also post the output of:

systemctl list-unit-files|grep enabled

~$ sudo systemctl list-unit-files|grep enabled
getty@.service                             enabled 
netctl.service                             enabled 
remote-fs.target                           enabled 

dcdriving

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Re: Netctl Profile does not exist or is not readable

from the wiki

Once you have created your profile, attempt to establish a connection (use only the profile name, not the full path):

elgs

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Registered: 2017-11-21

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Re: Netctl Profile does not exist or is not readable

I have exactly the same issue. @FreakyCheeseMan did you finally find a solution?

V1del

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Re: Netctl Profile does not exist or is not readable

This thread is five years old, it's unlikely you actually have the same issue, please open up your own thread with your own information and diagnostics from your own system.

Closing.