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HelpHelper

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From: Finland

Registered: 2022-07-31

Posts: 2

Can't start iwd.service

I'm on Arch and had iwd working before, but now for some reason when I turn on my computer it doesn't work.

I tried running

systemctl start iwd.service

and it says "Job for iwd.service failde because the control process exited with error code."

I checked

journalctl -xeu iwd.service

and it says it "Failed to start Wirelress service."

I ran

/usr/lib/iwd/iwd -d

and it said there's no support found for HMAC(SHA1), HMAC(MD5), CMAC(AES), HMAC(SHA256), HMAC(SHA512), DES, AES, CBC(DES3_EDE), or CBC(AES), and that the following options are missing in the kernel: CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_HASH, CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_SKCIPHER, CONFIG_CRYPTO_ECB, CONFIG_CRYPTO_MD5, CONFIG_CRYPTO_CBC, CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA256, CONFIG_CRYPTO_AES, CONFIG_CRYPTO_DES, CONFIG_CRYPTO_CMAC, CONFIG_CRYPTO_HMAC, CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA512, CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA1. It also says the following optimizations might be available, but I assume this isn't important: CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA1_SSSE3, CONFIG_CRYPTO_AES_NI_INTEL, CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA512_SSSE3, CONFIG_CRYPTO_AES_X86_64, CONFIG_CRYPTO_DES3_EDE_X86_64, CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA256_SSSE3 (as a side note, are these just listing some instructions that come with my CPU that the programs could take advantage of?).

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,255

Re: Can't start iwd.service

Welcome to the boards

Please post more context, a

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

would be useful: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o … n_services

HelpHelper

Member

From: Finland

Registered: 2022-07-31

Posts: 2

Re: Can't start iwd.service

Welcome to the boards

Please post more context, a

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

would be useful: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o … n_services

Thank you. I am unable to paste it to a Pastebin service because iwd being down prevents the computer from connecting to the Internet, and I do not have a wired connection to use systemd-networkd with. I'm not sure how to upload the output of journalctl.

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

gives:

/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@tty1.service | /etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@tty1.service
/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/dhcpcd.service | /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/dhcpcd.service
/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/iwd.service | /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/iwd.service
/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/remote-fs.target | /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/remote-fs.target
/etc/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants/p11-kit-server.socket | /etc/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants/p11-kit-server.socket
/etc/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants/pulseaudio.socket | /etc/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants/pulseaudio.socket

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seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 76,383

Re: Can't start iwd.service

You're somehow online right now, are you?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Tethering

Alternatively, redirect the journalctl output into a file and usb-walk it to a system w/ internet connection.

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Louson

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Registered: 2014-01-11

Posts: 8

Re: Can't start iwd.service

I got the same problem today. I actually had updated the kernel recently and required a reboot.