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dead_parrot
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 Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2016 6:10 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] wpa_gui: Could not get status from wpa_supplicant |
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Hi,
I have a problem with access rights to wpa_supplicant (I guess). Wpa_gui run by a user gives message: Could not get status from wpa_supplicant and run by root works fine.
my /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
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ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
update_config=1
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The user is a member of the wheel group.
I have no idea what is wrong.
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khayyam
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| Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2016 9:25 pm Post subject: Re: wpa_gui: Could not get status from wpa_supplicant |
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dead_parrot ... please try with:
| /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf: | ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=wheel
update_config=1 |
If that behaves similarly then post the output of
| Code: | $ ls -ld /run/wpa_supplicant
$ wpa_cli status |
best ... khay |
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dead_parrot
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| Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2016 9:22 am Post subject: |
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Hi khayyam,
Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, this does not change anything.
The output for ls -ld /run/wpa_supplicant is:
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drwxr-x--- 2 root root 60 12-18 10:13 /run/wpa_supplicant
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and for wpa_cli status:
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Failed to connect to non-global ctrl_ifname: (nil) error: Permission denied
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Best regards,
dp |
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khayyam
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| Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2016 9:56 am Post subject: |
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| dead_parrot wrote: | | Code: | | drwxr-x--- 2 root root 60 12-18 10:13 /run/wpa_supplicant |
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dead_parrot ... ok, that shows us that group isn't set to wheel. How are you starting wpa_supplicant?
| Code: | # egrep -v '^(#|$)' /etc/conf.d/wpa_supplicant
# ps auxwww | grep [w]pa |
best ... khay |
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dead_parrot
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| Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2016 4:16 pm Post subject: |
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| khayyam wrote: | How are you starting wpa_supplicant?
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I understand that via dhcpcd.
egrep -v '^(#|$)' /etc/conf.d/wpa_supplicant gives:
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wpa_supplicant_args=""
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and ps auxwww | grep [w]pa gives:
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root 3187 0.0 0.0 29860 3240 ? Ss 16:52 0:00 wpa_supplicant -B -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -iwlp6s0
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khayyam
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| Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2016 5:35 pm Post subject: |
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| dead_parrot wrote: | | khayyam wrote: | | How are you starting wpa_supplicant? |
I understand that via dhcpcd. |
dead_parrot ... so you have '10-wpa_supplicant' in /lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-hooks? Try the following:
| /etc/conf.d/wpa_supplicant: | | wpa_supplicant_args="-Dnl80211 -iwlp6s0 -qq" |
| Code: | # /etc/init.d/dhcpcd stop
# rm /lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-hooks/10-wpa_supplicant
# /etc/init.d/wpa_supplicant start
# /etc/init.d/dhcpcd start
# ls -l /run/wpa_supplicant |
| dead_parrot wrote: | | ps auxwww | grep [w]pa: | | root 3187 0.0 0.0 29860 3240 ? Ss 16:52 0:00 wpa_supplicant -B -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -iwlp6s0 |
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You should be seeing 'wpa_cli' running '/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_cli.sh' ... I assume dhcpcd doesn't start this (as 'net.*' would). That doesn't explain the fact that /run/wpa_supplicant is group 'wheel', it should be as this is defined in wpa_supplicant.conf ... that doesn't make sense to me, are you sure that there isn't a typo in the filename, or path?
best ... khay |
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charles17
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| Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2016 5:55 pm Post subject: |
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| khayyam wrote: | | Code: | # /etc/init.d/dhcpcd stop
# rm /lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-hooks/10-wpa_supplicant
# /etc/init.d/wpa_supplicant start
# /etc/init.d/dhcpcd start
# ls -l /run/wpa_supplicant |
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@khay,
For running wpa_supplicant with dhcpcd one would need either the old 10-wpa_supplicant hook (and do not run wpa_supplicant as a service) or use CONFIG_MATCH_IFACE=yes. |
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khayyam
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| Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2016 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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| charles17 wrote: | | @khay, [f]or running wpa_supplicant with dhcpcd one would need either the old 10-wpa_supplicant hook (and do not run wpa_supplicant as a service) or use CONFIG_MATCH_IFACE=yes. |
charles17 ... yes, but the above is simply a test to try and get some idea of why /run/wpa_supplicant (and socket) isn't 'root:wheel'. It should be, whether dhcpcd, or net.*, starts it, or if wpa_supplicant is run in isolation ... but from all accounts that isn't happening.
best ... khay |
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dead_parrot
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| Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2016 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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| khayyam wrote: |
dead_parrot ... so you have '10-wpa_supplicant' in /lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-hooks?
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Correct.
I removed it, did what you wrote, and received;
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* Starting WPA Supplicant Daemon ...
Failed to initialize control interface 'DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant'.
You may have another wpa_supplicant process already running or the file was
left by an unclean termination of wpa_supplicant in which case you will need
to manually remove this file before starting wpa_supplicant again.
nl80211: Failed to open /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/wlp6s0/drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast: No such file or directory
nl80211: Failed to set IPv4 unicast in multicast filter
nl80211: Failed to open /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/wlp6s0/drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast: No such file or directory
nl80211: Failed to set IPv4 unicast in multicast filter
* start-stop-daemon: failed to start `/usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant'
* Failed to start WPA Supplicant Daemon [ !! ]
* ERROR: wpa_supplicant failed to start
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killing wpa_supplicnat process and starting it again i got from ls -l /run/wpa_supplicant/
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srwxrwx--- 1 root root 0 12-19 21:55 wlp6s0
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root 4317 0.0 0.0 29860 3608 ? Ss 21:55 0:00 /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -Dnl80211 -iwlp6s0 -qq -B -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
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khayyam
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| Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2016 11:51 pm Post subject: |
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| dead_parrot wrote: | | Code: | * Starting WPA Supplicant Daemon ...
Failed to initialize control interface 'DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant'.
You may have another wpa_supplicant process already running or the file was
left by an unclean termination of wpa_supplicant in which case you will need
to manually remove this file before starting wpa_supplicant again. |
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dead_parrot ... "killing" will not "manually remove this file" ...
| Code: | # /etc/init.d/dhcpcd stop
# /etc/init.d/wpa_supplicant stop
# rm -f /lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-hooks/10-wpa_supplicant
# rm -fr /run/wpa_supplicant
# /etc/init.d/wpa_supplicant start
# /etc/init.d/dhcpcd start
# ls -ld /run/wpa_supplicant |
best ... khay |
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dead_parrot
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| Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2016 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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| khayyam wrote: |
dead_parrot ... "killing" will not "manually remove this file" ...
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the effect:
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rwxr-x--- 2 root root 60 12-20 19:53 /run/wpa_supplicant
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khayyam
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| Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2016 11:55 pm Post subject: |
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| dead_parrot wrote: | | Code: | | rwxr-x--- 2 root root 60 12-20 19:53 /run/wpa_supplicant |
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dead_parrot ... no change, so what is /run?
| Code: | | # mount | egrep '(root|run)' |
We should probably get more details of the contents of wpa_supplicant.conf:
| Code: | | # cat -vET /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf |
... and details about the wpa_supplicant package:
| Code: | | # emerge -pvq wpa_supplicant |
Also, stop wpa_supplicant, change wpa_supplicant_args to the following, start wpa_supplicant, and pastebin the log.
| /etc/conf.d/wpa_supplicant: | | wpa_supplicant_args="-Dnl80211 -dd -f /var/log/wpa_supplicant.log" |
best ... khay |
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dead_parrot
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| Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2016 7:24 am Post subject: |
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Dear khayyam,
Thank you very much for your help and patience. You were right from the very beginning. The solution was to have /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf as following
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ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=wheel
update_config=1
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instead of
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ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
update_config=1
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I did a mistake trying this solution putting GROUP=wheel in a separate line. Sorry and thanks again for your help. |
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