Package: wpasupplicant
Version: 0.4.8-3
Severity: normal
If ifup fails on an interface configured to use wpasupplicant's "managed
mode" a wpa_supplicant process is left running in the background.
The same happens if you interrupt ifup by pressing CTRL-C before it has
finished.
This has a major effect if you're trying to set up managed mode: If the first
attempt fails the second attempt will fail, too.
How to reproduce this behavior:
Break a working "managed mode" setup by commenting out the wpa-passphrase
line:
# /etc/network/interfaces:
iface wlan inet dhcp
wpa-driver wext
wpa-ssid yourssid
wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK
# wpa-passphrase Iwonttellyou
wpa-proto WPA
ifup the interface and wait until ifup gives in. You will still have a
wpa_supplicant running in the background
Now, uncomment the wpa-passphrase line and try to ifup wlan again. It will
fail.
Regards,
Felix
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'),
(1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15.3-jawaka
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages wpasupplicant depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurses5 5.5-1 Shared libraries for terminal
hand
ii libreadline5 5.1-7 GNU readline and history
libraries
ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8a-8 SSL shared libraries
wpasupplicant recommends no packages.
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