Re: NM Shutting Down

[CACook quantum-sci com]

On Sunday, 19 August, 2012 16:25:50 you wrote:
> > From: CACook quantum-sci com
> > Every two hours or so, NM pops up a window asking me for the wifi
> > router password.  Well if I Cancel, it disconnects me!  This is a
> > nuisance.  How do I make it stay connected?
> 
> Probably needs more info from the logs and warrants a bug report or
> comments to existing bug reports.

I find that every hour, this happens:
Aug 19 07:58:14 hex wpa_supplicant[3229]: wlan0: WPA: Group rekeying completed with 00:24:b2:5a:1a:7d [GTK=CCMP]

Then every ten minutes or so I get this:
Aug 19 10:20:53 hex wpa_supplicant[3229]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=00:24:b2:5a:1d:5e reason=4

And intermittently:
Aug 19 10:37:22 hex kernel: [109905.097576] wlan0: authenticate with 00:24:b2:5a:1d:5e (try 1)
Aug 19 10:37:22 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: scanning -> authenticating
Aug 19 10:37:22 hex kernel: [109905.294099] wlan0: authenticate with 00:24:b2:5a:1d:5e (try 2)
Aug 19 10:37:22 hex kernel: [109905.493764] wlan0: authenticate with 00:24:b2:5a:1d:5e (try 3)
Aug 19 10:37:22 hex kernel: [109905.693395] wlan0: authentication with 00:24:b2:5a:1d:5e timed out
Aug 19 10:37:22 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: authenticating -> disconnected
Aug 19 10:37:23 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: disconnected -> scanning
Aug 19 10:37:25 hex wpa_supplicant[3229]: wlan0: SME: Trying to authenticate with 00:24:b2:5a:1d:5e (SSID='Sirius' freq=5785 MHz)
Aug 19 10:37:25 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: scanning -> authenticating
Aug 19 10:37:25 hex kernel: [109908.372965] wlan0: authenticate with 00:24:b2:5a:1d:5e (try 1)
Aug 19 10:37:25 hex kernel: [109908.572432] wlan0: authenticate with 00:24:b2:5a:1d:5e (try 2)
Aug 19 10:37:26 hex kernel: [109908.772069] wlan0: authenticate with 00:24:b2:5a:1d:5e (try 3)
Aug 19 10:37:26 hex kernel: [109908.971777] wlan0: authentication with 00:24:b2:5a:1d:5e timed out
Aug 19 10:37:26 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: authenticating -> disconnected
Aug 19 10:37:26 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: disconnected -> scanning
Aug 19 10:37:28 hex wpa_supplicant[3229]: wlan0: SME: Trying to authenticate with 00:24:b2:5a:1d:5e (SSID='Sirius' freq=5785 MHz)
Aug 19 10:37:28 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: scanning -> authenticating
Aug 19 10:37:28 hex kernel: [109911.647354] wlan0: authenticate with 00:24:b2:5a:1d:5e (try 1)
Aug 19 10:37:29 hex kernel: [109911.846796] wlan0: authenticate with 00:24:b2:5a:1d:5e (try 2)
Aug 19 10:37:29 hex kernel: [109912.046456] wlan0: authenticate with 00:24:b2:5a:1d:5e (try 3)
Aug 19 10:37:29 hex kernel: [109912.246114] wlan0: authentication with 00:24:b2:5a:1d:5e timed out
Aug 19 10:37:29 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: authenticating -> disconnected
Aug 19 10:37:29 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: disconnected -> scanning
Aug 19 10:37:32 hex wpa_supplicant[3229]: wlan0: SME: Trying to authenticate with 00:24:b2:5a:1d:5e (SSID='Sirius' freq=5785 MHz)
Aug 19 10:37:32 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: scanning -> authenticating
Aug 19 10:37:32 hex kernel: [109915.021607] wlan0: authenticate with 00:24:b2:5a:1d:5e (try 1)
Aug 19 10:37:32 hex kernel: [109915.220979] wlan0: authenticate with 00:24:b2:5a:1d:5e (try 2)
Aug 19 10:37:32 hex kernel: [109915.420622] wlan0: authenticate with 00:24:b2:5a:1d:5e (try 3)
Aug 19 10:37:32 hex kernel: [109915.620296] wlan0: authentication with 00:24:b2:5a:1d:5e timed out
Aug 19 10:37:32 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: authenticating -> disconnected
Aug 19 10:37:33 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: disconnected -> scanning
Aug 19 10:37:34 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <warn> Activation (wlan0/wireless): association took too long.
Aug 19 10:37:34 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: config -> need-auth (reason 'none') [50 60 0]
Aug 19 10:37:34 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <warn> Activation (wlan0/wireless): asking for new secrets
Aug 19 10:37:34 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: scanning -> disconnected
Aug 19 10:37:34 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <warn> Couldn't disconnect supplicant interface: This interface is not connected.
Aug 19 10:39:34 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <warn> No agents were available for this request.
Aug 19 10:39:34 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: need-auth -> failed (reason 'no-secrets') [60 120 7]
Aug 19 10:39:34 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <warn> Activation (wlan0) failed for access point (Sirius)
Aug 19 10:39:34 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> Marking connection 'Sirius' invalid.
Aug 19 10:39:34 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <warn> Activation (wlan0) failed.
Aug 19 10:39:34 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: failed -> disconnected (reason 'none') [120 30 0]
Aug 19 10:39:34 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> (wlan0): deactivating device (reason 'none') [0]
Aug 19 10:44:34 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> Auto-activating connection 'Sirius'.
Aug 19 10:44:34 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> Activation (wlan0) starting connection 'Sirius'
Aug 19 10:44:34 hex NetworkManager[17362]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: disconnected -> prepare (reason 'none') [30 40 0]



> > Also I want to run macchanger.  This needs to run in if-pre-up.d, but
> > it seems NM ignores this dir.  How do I make NM execute macchanger
> > before it brings up the interface?
> 
> Is there any reason to use macchanger instead of NM's buit-in functionality?

Yeah, it only allows one cloned MAC address.  I want random MACs every boot, which I used to have.