Re: Networkmanager/dbus/wpa_supplicant

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 14:08 +0000, Robert Piasek wrote:
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> Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 08:20 +0000, Robert Piasek wrote:
> > Steev Klimaszewski wrote:
> > | On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 12:33 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > |> 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
> > | Massive snippage...
> > |
> > | For what its worth, last time I attempted to get this going, I ran
> > into the same issue.  I am not sure what exactly causes it, and no
> > amount of inspecting the Fedora spec files would give me any clues.  I
> > made sure all the permissions were the same as what Fedora installs, and
> > made sure the files were identical.  Not sure what magic they are using
> > over there, but I wish some would spread over here ;)
> > | Also, does wpa_supplicant ship with that file yet?  I know that
> > previously it didn't (and I grabbed it from Fedora's cvs) - perhaps I
> > will try to get another snapshot into my overlay soon.
> > |
> > | -- Steev
> > |
> > Dan,
> >
> > I've tried without -f option and still no luck. I will update my
> > wpa_supplicant to the most recent git version and check how it goes. I
> > will also try to investigate why dbus doesn't want to run it.
> > I'm not using SELinux or anything like it which could cause a problem.
> > At the moment I added wpa_supplicant -u to my startup files and it works
> > well.
> >
> > > Might be worth tossing some debug logging into
> > > bus/activation-helper-bin.c and bus/activation-helper.c in dbus to
> > > narrow down where it's going wrong.
> >
> > > Dan
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> >
> > Rob
> >>
> 
> 
> I've installed wpa_supplicant 0.6.2 and still no love. How can I monitor
> all messages which are sent by NM to dbus?

That won't really help you at all.  You want to figure out why dbus is
not launching wpa_supplicant when a service requests that it be
activated.  Try patching the dbus system bus service activation helper
to get log output as to why it's not getting launched.

Dan

> When the connection is established I can see it in /var/log/messages and
> using dbus-monitor:
> 
> /var/log/messages:
> Jan 11 13:46:56 [NetworkManager] <info>  Activation (eth0) successful,
> device activated._
> Jan 11 13:46:56 [NetworkManager] <info>  Activation (eth0) Stage 5 of 5
> (IP Configure Commit) complete._
> 
> 
> dbus-monitor:
> method call sender=:1.18 -> dest=org.freedesktop.Notifications
> path=/org/freedesktop/Notifications;
> interface=org.freedesktop.Notifications; member=Notify
>    string "NetworkManager"
>    uint32 0
>    string "nm-device-wired"
>    string "Connection Established"
>    string "You are now connected to the wired network."
>    array [
>    ]
>    array [
>       dict entry(
>          string "y"
>          variant             int32 12
>       )
>       dict entry(
>          string "xdisplay"
>          variant             string ":0.0"
>       )
>       dict entry(
>          string "urgency"
>          variant             byte 0
>       )
>       dict entry(
>          string "x"
>          variant             int32 1474
>       )
>    ]
>    int32 -1
> method return sender=:1.16 -> dest=:1.18 reply_serial=15
>    uint32 23
> 
> 
> 
> but I  can't see anything in dbus monitor when NM tries to run
> wpa_supplicant
> 
> /var/log/messages:
> Jan 11 13:49:53 [NetworkManager] <info>  Trying to start the supplicant..._
>                 - Last output repeated twice -
>  
> 
> 
> I will also check the files you mentioned (although I'm not a programmer)
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rob
> 
> 
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