Re: Networkmanager/dbus/wpa_supplicant

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 17:29 +0000, Robert Piasek wrote:
> Steev, Dan, thank you for help guys. I'm afraid it still doesn't work.
> I've updated to heavily patched dbus-1.1.3 from steev's repo
> * sys-apps/dbus
>     gentoo:                  1.0.2-r2 {:0} 
>     installed:               1.1.3* {:0} 
>     Installed time:          Thu Jan 10 17:07:06 2008
>     Installed using:         paludis-0.26.0_alpha5
> 
> also ensured I've got
> /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant.service
> 
> [D-BUS Service]
> Name=fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant
> Exec=/usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant
> -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -u -f
> User=root
> 
> in place. Still the same issue. Any other ideas?

Try removing the "-f" from the Exec line.  The version of wpa_supplicant
you have might not support that option, which may be causing it to quit.

Also, are you running SELinux or anything like that?

Dan

> Thanks
> 
> Rob
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 10:17 -0600, Steev Klimaszewski wrote: 
> > Robert Piasek wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Today I've updated NM to recent SVN build. When I run NetworkManager I 
> > > can see in logs:
> > > 
> > > Jan 10 15:50:36 [NetworkManager] <info>  Trying to start the supplicant..._
> > > Jan 10 15:50:37 [NetworkManager] <info>  Trying to start the supplicant..._
> > > 
> > > and it doesn't start it. When I manually run wpa_supplicant -u I can see:
> > > 
> > > Jan 10 15:50:51 [NetworkManager] <info>  (eth0) supplicant interface is 
> > > now in state 1 (from 0)._
> > > Jan 10 15:50:51 [NetworkManager] <info>  (eth0) supplicant interface is 
> > > now in state 2 (from 1)._
> > > 
> > > so everything seems to be fine.
> > > 
> > > This happens for wired ethernet card (haven't tried on laptop yet to 
> > > check wireless).
> > > I'm using dbus-1.1.2 so it should start automatically right? Can it be 
> > > related with dbus policy settings?
> > > 
> > > my current setting for NM is:
> > > 
> > > cat /etc/dbus-1/system.d/NetworkManager.conf
> > > 
> > > <!DOCTYPE busconfig PUBLIC
> > > "-//freedesktop//DTD D-BUS Bus Configuration 1.0//EN"
> > > "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd";>
> > > <busconfig>
> > >         <policy user="root">
> > >                 <allow own="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/>
> > >                 <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/>
> > >                 <allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/>
> > > 
> > > <allow own="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.PPP"/>
> > >                 <allow 
> > > send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.PPP"/>
> > >                 <allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.PPP"/>
> > >         </policy>
> > >         <policy group="plugdev">
> > >                  <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/>
> > >                  <allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/>
> > >          </policy>
> > >          <policy context="default">
> > >                 <allow own="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/>
> > >                 <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/>
> > >                 <allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager"/>
> > > 
> > >                 <deny own="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.PPP"/>
> > >                 <deny 
> > > send_destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.PPP"/>
> > >                 <deny send_interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.PPP"/>
> > >         </policy>
> > > 
> > >         <limit name="max_replies_per_connection">512</limit>
> > > </busconfig>
> > > 
> > > cat /etc/dbus-1/system.d/wpa_supplicant.conf
> > > 
> > > <!DOCTYPE busconfig PUBLIC
> > > "-//freedesktop//DTD D-BUS Bus Configuration 1.0//EN"
> > > "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd";>
> > > <busconfig>
> > >         <policy user="root">
> > >                 <allow own="fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant"/>
> > > 
> > >                 <allow send_destination="fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant"/>
> > >                 <allow send_interface="fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant"/>
> > >         </policy>
> > >         <policy at_console="true">
> > >                 <allow send_destination="fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant"/>
> > >                 <allow send_interface="fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant"/>
> > >         </policy>
> > >         <policy context="default">
> > >                 <deny own="fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant"/>
> > >                 <deny send_destination="fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant"/>
> > >                 <deny send_interface="fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant"/>
> > >         </policy>
> > > </busconfig>
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Thank you,
> > > 
> > > Robert
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> > You may want to try the dbus 1.1.3 snapshot in my developer overlay.
> > 
> > Its publicly located at http://git.overlays.gentoo.org (just look on 
> > gitweb for the url)
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