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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#35550: Installer: wpa_supplicant fails to start
Date: Sat, 04 May 2019 23:14:29 +0200
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To: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
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Hi,

"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> skribis:

> On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 05:32:23PM +0200, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote:

[...]

>> Could you also try running (as root):
>>=20
>>   while herd restart wpa-supplicant; do : ; done
>>=20
>> to see the frequency at which the service fails to start?
>>
>
> It displays
>
> Service wpa-supplicant is not running.
> Service wpa-supplicant could not be started.

Sorry, to be complete, I should have asked you to first kill the
=E2=80=9Cdangling=E2=80=9D wpa_supplicant process:

  pkill -f wpa_supplicant
  pgrep -fa wpa_supplicant  # make sure it=E2=80=99s really dead
  while herd restart wpa-supplicant; do : ; done

Could you try this?

TIA,
Ludo=E2=80=99.