[pkg-wpa-devel] /sbin/wpa_cli: wpa_cli unusable after reboot, possibly insserv related

[Andrei Popescu]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 03:56:37PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> The issue sound to me like a dependency or timing issue.  Can you
> provide the outout from 'ls /etc/rc*.d' on the machine with the
> problem, to document the problematic boot sequence?
 
Attached

> Reading the report, I suspect the network isn't ready when the wpa
> related init.d script is executed during boot.  Removing the hwclock
> scripts would expose such problem as the network stack get less time
> to get ready before it is needed.

The problem existed before removing the hwclock links.

> If /var/ isn't mounted when a script need it, the script is missing a
> dependency on $local_fs or $remote_fs.  Seeing the boot sequence might
> reveal this.

I sure hope it does.

Regards,
Andrei
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S03udev
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S04procps
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S05hdparm
S05keymap.sh
S06keyboard-setup
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S08ifupdown-clean
S08module-init-tools
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S08udev-mtab
S09checkfs.sh
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S11mountall-bootclean.sh
S12mountoverflowtmp
S13bootmisc.sh
S13ifupdown
S13resolvconf
S13urandom
S13x11-common
S14networking
S15mountnfs.sh
S15shorewall
S16mountnfs-bootclean.sh
S17alsa-utils
S17console-screen.sh
S17screen-cleanup
S17sudo
S18console-setup
S19stop-bootlogd-single
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