Control: reassign -1 network-manager/1.14.4-4 Hi!
On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 3:22 PM Andreas Henriksson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Felipe, > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 10:00:09PM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote: > > Package: iwd > > Version: 0.10-1 > > Severity: normal > > > > Hi, > > > > Today iwd crashed, and it didn't restart. This left me with no wifi > > until I restarted it manually. > > :( > > > > > I'm using NetworkManager, so it is possibly NM's fault. If so, please > > reassign there. > > I'm not sure what's correct here, maybe you can tell me? > > First off, iwd can be used in two different modes: > - standalone (you manually start the service, expect it to run forever > and then you run your favourite dhcp client on the interface.) > - dbus activated (which AIUI is the way NetworkManager does it) > > If iwd was simply a normal 'standalone' service, then using > Restart=on-failure or similar would be a no-brainer..... I'm not sure > where the responsibility lies with dbus-activated stuff though. I guess > atleast Restart=on-abnormal could be used there, but at the same time no > matter if the dbus-activated service exists because it's 'done for now' > or crashes, the overlying activator is the one who knows if it's useful > for the dbus-activated service to run at all. Maybe thus it's the > activators responsibility to keep track and dbus-activate again? I don't > know. I'm not sure but I atleast don't think it's common for > dbus-activated services to have their own Restart= setting.... > > Your input on how the responsibilities should be divided would be > appreciated. > It seems to me that the fault lies with the NM iwd plugin, at least with versions 0.13 and up. 0.13 includes Restart=on-failure, so iwd is already doing all it can. However, from the crashes I have experienced, sometimes NM gets into a confused state and cannot connect to wifi anymore until it is restarted. So I think the issue should be reassigned to the NM iwd plugin, as it cannot gracefully handle iwd dying from under it. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler
