Bug 243492

Summary: Error opening supplicant global control interface
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Greg Monahan <greg.monahan>
Component: wpa_supplicantAssignee: Dan Williams <dcbw>
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Fixed In Version: 0.6.5-3 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Greg Monahan 2007-06-09 02:01:05 UTC 
Description of problem:

Upgrade from Build 3200 to 3208, wireless now displays available networks via
nm-applet 0.6.5 but does not bind to selected network

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

wpa_supplicant.i386                      1:0.5.7-3.fc7
yum says that 1:0.5.7-3.fc8 is available but won't upgrade

How reproducible:

Use nm-applet to view ntworks, tail /var/log/messages to see supplicant fail

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:

Snippet from log:

Jun  8 09:40:58 monahan-fedora NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth0) Stage 1
of 5 (Device Prepare) complete. 
Jun  8 09:40:58 monahan-fedora NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth0) Stage 2
of 5 (Device Configure) starting... 
Jun  8 09:40:58 monahan-fedora NetworkManager: <info>  Activation
(eth0/wireless): access point 'monahan' is encrypted, and a key exists.  No new
key needed. 
Jun  8 09:41:00 monahan-fedora NetworkManager: <info>  Error opening supplicant
global control interface. 
Jun  8 09:41:00 monahan-fedora NetworkManager: <WARN>  real_act_stage2_config():
Activation (eth0/wireless): couldn't connect to the supplicant. 

Expected results:


Additional info:
Comment 1 Dan Williams 2007-06-09 13:34:10 UTC 
You'll need to update to the latest NM as well; 0.6.5-3 or later.  It's in the
mirrors now.
Comment 2 Greg Monahan 2007-06-09 14:19:11 UTC 
Did and upgraded to build 3213. There was a FAIL for wpa_supplicant on reboot,
but it is running and wireless is 100%.

Many thanks