Control: tags -1 + moreinfo On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 20:22:07 +0200 "Eduard Bloch" <bl...@unix-ag.uni-kl.de> wrote: > clone 849875 -1 > reassign -1 network-manager > retitle -1 WPA usage error: Invalid passphrase character > thanks > > On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 11:32:28PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > > Dear Debian wpasupplicant Maintainers, > > I noticed that these 3 RC bugs (#849122, #849077, #849875) are marked > > as found in wpa/2.6-2, which is now superseded by versions with epoch 2. > > What seems to have happened (please correct me, if I am wrong) is that > > the upstream version 2.4 was reintroduced into unstable (with epoch 2) > > and then migrated to stretch (before the stretch release as stable). > > > > Hence, I would say that those three bugs only affect experimental and > > are not in stretch, buster or sid. > > > > Could you please confirm that these 3 bugs should be marked as fixed in > > wpa/2:2.4-1 and found in wpa/2:2.6-4 ? > > Ok, now the problem from the original report has hit me too. > > I could not figure out what is going on. I selected an AP which has been > working fine for months, and suddenly NM switched me to another AP > (which works partly since it is far away and reception quality is bad). > > I tried removing wpasupplicant and network-manager. Purging config. > Nothing helps. Checking the log, and WOW... (see attachment). > So wpa_supplicant says "Line 0: Invalid passphrase character". > Line 0 of what? This is most likely the input from NM which means: NM > feeds wpa_supplicant with CRAP. But which crap? When NM asked me for > passphrase, I am absolutely sure that I entered the correct one.
Does the password have any special characters? Can you change the WPA passphrase to something else (say only letters) and try again? Please also provide a full debug log from NetworkManager (and wpasupplicant) when the problem happens. https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/NetworkManager/Debugging which versions of wpasupplicant and network-manager do you have installed?
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