On Wed 11 May 2016 at 21:11:41 +0200, Hans wrote: > Hi all, > > since some time I discovered, that wpa-supplicant is spamming into syslog and > daemon.log. This means, both logs are bloating to gigantic filesize. > > This is what it spams: > > May 11 21:06:52 localhost wpa_supplicant[5871]: ctrl_iface exists and seems > to > be in use - cannot override it > May 11 21:06:52 localhost wpa_supplicant[5871]: Delete > '/run/wpa_supplicant/wlan0' manually if it is not used anymore > May 11 21:06:52 localhost wpa_supplicant[5871]: Failed to initialize control > interface '/run/wpa_supplicant'.#012You may have another wpa_supplicant > process already running or the file was#012left by an unclean termination of > wpa_supplicant in which case you will need#012to manually remove this file > before starting wpa_supplicant again. > May 11 21:06:52 localhost NetworkManager[1517]: <error> [1462993612.556366] > [supplicant-manager/nm-supplicant-interface.c:856] interface_add_cb(): > (wlan0): error adding interface: wpa_supplicant couldn't grab this interface. > May 11 21:06:52 localhost NetworkManager[1517]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant > interface state: starting -> down > May 11 21:06:52 localhost wpa_supplicant[5871]: ctrl_iface exists and seems > to > be in use - cannot override it > May 11 21:06:52 localhost wpa_supplicant[5871]: Delete > '/run/wpa_supplicant/wlan0' manually if it is not used anymore > May 11 21:06:52 localhost wpa_supplicant[5871]: Failed to initialize control > interface '/run/wpa_supplicant'.#012You may have another wpa_supplicant > process already running or the file was#012left by an unclean termination of > wpa_supplicant in which case you will need#012to > > And so on.... > > Any hints, what is happening? > > I also discovered, that my wlan is sometimes not correctly reconized at boot. > > The solution then is to remove and reload the kernel module (rmmod ath5k. > modprobe ath5k, then restart wicd.) > > Maybe this is related to this? > > I will be happy of any help.
The log file has a hint: May 11 21:06:52 localhost wpa_supplicant[5871]: Failed to initialize control interface '/run/wpa_supplicant'.#012You may have another wpa_supplicant process already running or the file was#012left by an unclean termination of wpa_supplicant in which case you will need#012to manually remove this file before starting wpa_supplicant again. Did you take it?
