Bug 444554

Summary: wpa_supplicant does not start at boot (VERY ANNOYING BUG)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Răzvan Sandu <rsandu2004>
Component: wpa_supplicantAssignee: Dan Williams <dcbw>
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Răzvan Sandu 2008-04-29 02:50:58 UTC 
Description of problem:

wpa_supplicant does not start at boot, writting FAILED in red during system
initialization and throwing a message about a missing file (wpa_ctrl_open)

However, wpa_supplicant *does* start if it's restarted manually after system
initialization.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
wpa_supplicant-0.6.3-5.fc9.x86_64


How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install fresh copy of Fedora 8 or later (unstable).
2. Perform all available online updates.
3. Mark wpa_supplicant in ntsysv to be started at boot.
3. Start the system and watch initialization.
  
Actual results:
wpa_supplicant does not start during boot

Expected results:
wpa_supplicant should start normally

Additional info:
Hardware is a Dell Inspiron 1520, please see smolt profile here:
http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_9d69eb22-c7a0-44ea-9e54-a49aa186b94c
Comment 1 Dan Williams 2008-05-01 10:42:55 UTC 
Are you running with SELinux enabled at all?  What's the output of:

/usr/sbin/getenforce

Also, what's your wifi configuration?  WPA? WEP? Open?
Comment 2 Răzvan Sandu 2008-05-01 11:34:22 UTC 
Hello,

/usr/sbin/getenforce
Enforcing

Wi-fi configuration is WPA2 with (an alphanumeric) preshared key/password.
IP address should be given by DHCP (a Fedora DHCP server put on the same
Ethernet segment as the WAP).

The WAP is a D-Link DWL-G700AP, B/G standard - works flawlessly after conection.

Regards,
Răzvan
Comment 3 Dan Williams 2008-05-01 14:14:52 UTC 
After boot, what's the output of "ps aux | grep wpa_supplicant" ?  This may be
an SELinux issue, in that wlassistant doesn't have the right rules for SELinux.
Comment 4 Răzvan Sandu 2008-05-01 14:55:14 UTC 
Here it is:



 4912 ?        Ss     0:00 wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplic
/wpa_supplicant.conf -B -u -dddt -f /var/log/wpa_supplicant.log


Regards,
Răzvan
Comment 5 Dan Williams 2008-05-01 16:36:54 UTC 
What's the contents of /var/log/audit/audit.log ?  You'll need to be root to
access that file.
Comment 6 Răzvan Sandu 2008-05-02 15:30:14 UTC 
Created attachment 304394 [details]
audit.log

Here's the audit.log file, as requested.
Comment 7 Răzvan Sandu 2008-05-04 16:22:38 UTC 
Seems to be corrected - now wpa_supplicant starts at boot.


wpa_supplicant-0.6.3-5.fc9.x86_64

Closing...