Messages go to syslog as I've since found out. Apparently there is an address conflict but it doesn't show up until I've tried to connect several times. I'm confused.
I'll look at this tomorrow. Sent from Blue On 29 Mar 2022, 18:11, at 18:11, Peter Merchant via dorset <dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote: >On 29/03/2022 15:14, Terry Coles wrote: >> Hi, >> >> The system that I've been talking about for a few days seems to have >a problem >> with WiFi. It generally works OK the first time a user connects, but >after >> that the message 'Obtaining IP Address' is displayed for ever. What >I can't >> work out is how to debug this. Can anyone tell me where to find the >log file(s) >> for dnsmasq? >> >A quick search gets me: > >Ok then your are using hostapd and dnsmasq. For the clients >informations you can parse the 'leases' file of dnsmasq >in|/var/lib/misc/dnsmasq.leases| > >|I don't know whether the logfiles are close to it. | > >|In dnsmasq.conf I found:| > >|# For debugging purposes, log each DNS query as it passes through # >dnsmasq. #log-queries # Log lots of extra information about DHCP >transactions. #log-dhcp | > >|But I can't find any logfiles in rootfs partition. | >-- > Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2022-05-04 20:00 > Check to whom you are replying > Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk > New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2022-05-04 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
