[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#427299: Bug#427299: Automated work-around

[Tristan Schmelcher]

No joy on either account.

/etc/network/interfaces:

    # This file describes the network interfaces available on your
system
    # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
    
    # The loopback network interface
    auto lo
    iface lo inet loopback

ps -ef | grep wpa:

    root     21719     1  0 15:32 ?        00:00:00 /sbin/wpa_supplicant
-dd -g /var/run/wpa_supplicant-global
    tristan  22023 12861  0 15:33 pts/0    00:00:00 grep wpa

If I disable networking with nm-applet, that single wpa_supplicant
process disappears, so its definitely the NM one.

I'm not too surprised that you can't reproduce this--it has the smell of
a hardware-dependent bug. Perhaps I should strace the NM processes?

On Tue, 2007-12-06 at 23:13 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:

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> Tristan Schmelcher wrote:
> > First of all, I should mention that I have tested version 0.6.4-8 and
> > the behaviour is no different.
> > 
> > Now, for other users that are having this problem, I have written a
> > simple shell script that automates my work-around. It is attached. You
> > can run it from a shell as follows:
> > 
> >     sudo keep-up.sh ethX
> > 
> > where ethX is the wireless interface that NetworkManager keeps
> > mistakenly shutting down.
> > 
> > The script simply checks every 5 seconds to see if the interface is
> > down, and if so then it brings it up. If you want to run it
> > automatically on boot, then put it in /usr/local/sbin add this line
> > to /etc/rc.local:
> > 
> >     /usr/local/sbin/keep-up.sh ethX &
> 
> Unfortunately I can't reproduce your problem. What does your
> /etc/network/interfaces look like? Do you perhaps have another instance of
> wpasupplicant running which interferes with the one started by NM?
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael
> - --
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