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bigmac_nopickles

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Registered: 2019-11-16

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[SOLVED] Wifi doesn't work on startup even though netctl enabled

Hello, I'm on a fresh install.

For some reason, my wifi is never enabled on startup. I end up doing the following on every startup:

# sudo netctl start bell971

Job for netctl@bell971.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status netctl@bell971.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

# sudo systemctl status netctl@bell971.service

netctl@bell971.service - A simple WPA encrypted wireless connection
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/netctl@.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
    Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/netctl@bell971.service.d
             `-profile.conf
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2020-08-07 00:10:43 EDT; 32s ago
       Docs: man:netctl.profile(5)
    Process: 12206 ExecStart=/usr/lib/netctl/network start bell971 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   Main PID: 12206 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Aug 07 00:10:43 ibrahim systemd[1]: Starting A simple WPA encrypted wireless connection...
Aug 07 00:10:43 ibrahim network[12206]: Starting network profile 'bell971'...
Aug 07 00:10:43 ibrahim network[12206]: The interface of network profile 'bell971' is already up
Aug 07 00:10:43 ibrahim systemd[1]: netctl@bell971.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Aug 07 00:10:43 ibrahim systemd[1]: netctl@bell971.servi: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Aug 07 00:10:43 ibrahim systemd[1]: Failed to start A simple WPA encrypted wireless connection.

Since it tells me 'bell971' is already up(i don't fully understand what this means), i do:

# ip link <-- to find the name
# sudo ip link set wlp0s20f0u8 down

Then retry

# sudo netctl start bell971

And wifi works. I thought that if i run:

# sudo netctl enable bell971

it would have wifi connected automatically on startup. Is this not the case?

Thanks

Last edited by bigmac_nopickles (2020-08-07 22:53:25)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Wifi doesn't work on startup even though netctl enabled

Aug 07 00:10:43 ibrahim network[12206]: The interface of network profile 'bell971' is already up

find /etc/systemd -type l -exec test -f {} \; -print | awk -F'/' '{ printf ("%-40s | %s\n", $(NF-0), $(NF-1)) }' | sort -f

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bigmac_nopickles

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Re: [SOLVED] Wifi doesn't work on startup even though netctl enabled

dbus-org.freedesktop.nm-dispatcher.service | system
dhcpcd.service                           | multi-user.target.wants
dirmngr.socket                           | sockets.target.wants
display-manager.service                  | system
getty@tty1.service                       | getty.target.wants
gpg-agent-browser.socket                 | sockets.target.wants
gpg-agent-extra.socket                   | sockets.target.wants
gpg-agent-ssh.socket                     | sockets.target.wants
gpg-agent.socket                         | sockets.target.wants
netctl-auto@wlan0.service                | sys-subsystem-net-devices-wlan0.device.wants
netctl@bell971.service                   | multi-user.target.wants
NetworkManager-wait-online.service       | network-online.target.wants
NetworkManager.service                   | multi-user.target.wants
p11-kit-server.socket                    | sockets.target.wants
pulseaudio.socket                        | sockets.target.wants
remote-fs.target                         | multi-user.target.wants

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Wifi doesn't work on startup even though netctl enabled

dhcpcd.service                           | multi-user.target.wants
....
netctl-auto@wlan0.service                | sys-subsystem-net-devices-wlan0.device.wants
....
netctl@bell971.service                   | multi-user.target.wants
....
NetworkManager.service                   | multi-user.target.wants

Multiple network management services competing to control an interface produces issues such as this.
Pick one network management service,  stop and disable the rest.

bigmac_nopickles

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Posts: 25

Re: [SOLVED] Wifi doesn't work on startup even though netctl enabled

Ah i see. Thank you.

# sudo systemctl disable dhcpcd.service
# sudo systemctl disable NetworkManager
# sudo systemctl disable netctl-auto@wlan0.service

# reboot

Perfect