Re: NM Shutting Down

["Nathanael D. Noblet" <nathanael gnat ca>]

Hello -

  What distro & version of NM/wpa_supplicant are you using?

On 08/30/2012 08:51 AM, CACook quantum-sci com wrote:
> On Wednesday, 29 August, 2012 08:25:45 CACook quantum-sci com wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 21 August, 2012 10:10:11 CACook quantum-sci com wrote:
> > > Just had the failure again, and still no supplicant log.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tuesday, 21 August, 2012 07:53:26 CACook quantum-sci com wrote:
> > > > On Monday, 20 August, 2012 09:54:13 you wrote:
> > > > > > Not enough of the log?  I wonder what a reason 4 is?
> > > > >
> > > > > "disassociated due to inactivity"
> > > > >
> > > > > That can be any number of reasons, if there's any way to get AP logs,
> > > > > that would help.  Otherwise it could be a driver problem.  But it's
> > > > > pretty clear that it's an issue lower than NetworkManager.  To figure
> > > > > that out, we need detailed supplicant debugging logs.  You can do this
> > > > > via the instructions here:
> > > > >
> > > > > https://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/Debugging
> > > > >
> > > > > Then we'll get more information about why.
> > > >
> > > > I don't have a /var/log/wpa_supplicant.log file, so I edited /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1.service and added to Exec=: -f /var/log/wpa_supplicant.log, then restarted NetworkManager.
> > > >
> > > > Still don't have the log file for some reason, but went ahead and
> > > > sudo dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1 /fi/w1/wpa_supplicant1 org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Set string:fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1 string:DebugTimestamp variant:boolean:true
> > > > sudo dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1 /fi/w1/wpa_supplicant1 org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Set string:fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1 string:DebugLevel variant:string:"msgdump"
> > > >
> > > > To each it responded with the obtuse:
> > > > method return sender=:1.12 -> dest=:1.50 reply_serial=2

That is normal. All it means is that the debugging output to the debug 
file should be what you requested. I agree that it is obtuse, however 
realize that the response is from dbus.


> Clearly NM is as busted as it's always been.

I'm not even a NM dev - however I would expect that insulting the people 
who can help you isn't the best way. I've found help on the IRC channel 
to be superb and timely. Also you are also free to uninstall NM and do 
all the manual wpa configuration yourself. Having just played with 
wpa_supplicant on its own without NM to debug some stuff I can tell you 
that NM is awesome and I wouldn't wish managing wpa interfaces manually 
on anyone.


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Nathanael d. Noblet
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