Re: NM Shutting Down

[Pavel Simerda <psimerda redhat com>]

> From: 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]

This should be ok.

> 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

That's the problem.

> 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

This looks like a failed authentication attempt.

> '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]

Just cleanup.

> 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]

This is probably not enough. By the way, do you have IPv6 in your network?

> > > 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.

On every boot or on every connection start?

Cheers,

Pavel