Wifi menu error while boot up

kashishme · 2021-02-17 09:43:39

Maybe i am posting thus again but i didn't get a reply first time.

[FAILED] to start Automatically generated profile by wifi-menu.

The error above shows up for a split second every time i boot up and its kinda annoying and i don't really understand what to do.

I posted on Reddit too and people were helpful but i didn't get a solution. I tried searching on the forum but i didn't find anything related to this. I am happy to post the outputs but plz help.

btw here is a pic which i got by recording my boot up and taking a ss of a frame in the video (https://imgur.com/gallery/7R9OY2K)

here is the Reddit post https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comm … urce=share

Thank you

Last edited by kashishme (2021-02-17 10:24:41)

V1del · 2021-02-17 10:01:52

If you want a thread moved to a section you hope has more visibility please use the report function rather than creating a new thread.

Maybe post a link to said reddit discussion. I'm not quite sure what to tell you here, if you intend to use wifi-menu and the associated services you should investigate their status i.e. this message likely comes from a special service https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne … temd_units you should be able to check the state they are in with systemctl status and journalctl and friends: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … sing_units https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … ing_output

If you don't intend to use it or are using another networkmanager they are safe to disable.

But this is all very basic system maintenance stuff that you will have intentionally set up at some point, which instructions did you follow when installing this system?

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kashishme · 2021-02-17 10:23:27

V1del wrote:

If you want a thread moved to a section you hope has more visibility please use the report function rather than creating a new thread.
Maybe post a link to said reddit discussion. I'm not quite sure what to tell you here, if you intend to use wifi-menu and the associated services you should investigate their status i.e. this message likely comes from a special service https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne … temd_units you should be able to check the state they are in with systemctl status and journalctl and friends: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … sing_units https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … ing_output
If you don't intend to use it or are using another networkmanager they are safe to disable.
But this is all very basic system maintenance stuff that you will have intentionally set up at some point, which instructions did you follow when installing this system?

I followed arch wiki, but when i was trying to fix mtp, then this started happening everytime i boot up

V1del · 2021-02-17 10:38:46

Well are you using netctl for networking or do you now have multiple services enabled? On of the main points of Arch is that generally things don't "just happen" unless by an active action on your side. Post a journal

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

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Li … in_clients

I'm not quite sure what mtp should have to do with this as that should be independent of whatever networking solution you are using.

kashishme · 2021-02-17 10:59:25

V1del wrote:

Well are you using netctl for networking or do you now have multiple services enabled? On of the main points of Arch is that generally things don't "just happen" unless by an active action on your side. Post a journal
find /etc/systemd -type l -exec test -f {} \; -print | awk -F'/' '{ printf ("%-40s | %s\n", $(NF-0), $(NF-1)) }' | sort -f
sudo journalctl -b
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Li … in_clients
I'm not quite sure what mtp should have to do with this as that should be independent of whatever networking solution you are using.

here is the journal - http://ix.io/2PII. Yeah i guess mtp has nothing but i saw it happening after that, never mind

V1del · 2021-02-17 11:05:09

You are using networkmanager so you need to disable any forms of netctl trying to be invoked.

systemctl disable netctl@wlp0s20f3\x2ddoneboiiii.service

kashishme · 2021-02-17 11:13:49

V1del wrote:

You are using networkmanager so you need to disable any forms of netctl trying to be invoked.
systemctl disable netctl@wlp0s20f3\x2ddoneboiiii.service

I did that and rebooted, but still didn't solve it, there was no error during the command

Last edited by kashishme (2021-02-17 11:14:02)

V1del · 2021-02-17 11:15:22

post the find command and maybe go through your /etc/netctl and netctl disable leftover profiles. If I'm reading that right you have potentially systemd-networkd enabled as well and generally all sorts of things that shouldn't be enabled.

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kashishme · 2021-02-18 11:14:11

V1del wrote:

post the find command and maybe go through your /etc/netctl and netctl disable leftover profiles. If I'm reading that right you have potentially systemd-networkd enabled as well and generally all sorts of things that shouldn't be enabled.

here is the find command (sorry for being late)...
http://ix.io/2PPZ

btw i disabled systemd-networkd and resolved, but nothing changes

Last edited by kashishme (2021-02-18 11:15:30)

kashishme · 2021-02-18 11:20:48

Also, now i remembered when this happened, when i installed nm-applet.after that it started happening, Is nm-applet related to it?

V1del · 2021-02-18 11:26:24

No, you still have the netctl service enabled

systemctl disable netctl@wlp0s20f3-ddoneboiiii.service #You probably have to omit the \x2 and use the literal - sorry about that

otherwise go into /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ and delete the netctl symlink.

kashishme · 2021-02-19 11:16:28

V1del wrote:

No, you still have the netctl service enabled
systemctl disable netctl@wlp0s20f3-ddoneboiiii.service #You probably have to omit the \x2 and use the literal - sorry about that
otherwise go into /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ and delete the netctl symlink.

what do i have to omit? dint get it

V1del · 2021-02-19 12:12:14

That's a comment on why I think the first command I gave you didn't work. You can just run that without the part after the # or simply go check the directory and manually remove the symlink

You need to make sure that there's no symlink to a netctl profile in /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/

Maybe read and try to understand how services work: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … sing_units

kashishme · 2021-02-19 14:29:57

V1del wrote:

That's a comment on why I think the first command I gave you didn't work. You can just run that without the part after the # or simply go check the directory and manually remove the symlink
You need to make sure that there's no symlink to a netctl profile in /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/
Maybe read and try to understand how services work: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … sing_units

still the same error, on boot.
there are other service files, network manager, tlp, remote-fs.target, that is all(in /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/)

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