On Friday 05 December 2008 00:25:02 Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Soren Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Glancing at its pre-up script, I'm guessing your problem is this: > > > > # quit if executables are not installed > > if [ ! -x "$WPA_SUP_BIN" ] || [ ! -x "$WPA_CLI_BIN" ]; then > > exit 0 > > fi > > This is a perfectly valid use case when the wpasupplicant package is > removed but not purged. > > The wpasupplicant-ifupdown script is installed as a conffile, because we > expected that local users might want to do some changes to > it. /etc/network/if-*.d is installed in /etc/ as conffile for a reason > after all. > > What we could do however is to move the ifupdown conffile to > /var/lib/wpasupplicant or something and exit with exitcode 1 to indicate > to ifupdown that starting the interface has failed. After skimming the > ifupdown code, it seems that /etc/init.d/networking (which calls 'ifup > -a') *should* then retry to 'up' the interface. > > Kel, how do you think about this idea?
After Soren jumped all over my last casual remark, i don't dare comment until such a time i can review the entire bug, which aint gonna be for a few weeks. I haven't seen any sign of this bug in the Debian BTS and have not read the full LP 44194. Kel. -- wpasupplicant doesn't start when the network start https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/44194 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
