Hello Paul, The locking mechanism was implemented to avoid race conditions in ifupdown (such as the one reported as bug #1337873). Unsetting the variable may lead to unexpected consequences. I belive a proper solution would be to modify wpa-roam implementation to play along with ifupdown.
Could you please share your configuration? I tried reproducing it but was unable to do so with the simplest wpa-roam config I checked (ifup brings the interface up as expected with ifupdown 0.8.10ubuntu1 on Xenial. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1545302 Title: wpa-roam broken by fix for ifupdown #1337873 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpa/+bug/1545302/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs