[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#572143: wpasupplicant: dbus config file wrong - doesn't associate

[Oliver Joa]

Package: wpasupplicant
Version: 0.6.10-1
Severity: important

Same Problem like in Bug #567710.

On my System there is a wpa_supplicant running all the time:

13169 ?        S      0:00 /sbin/wpa_supplicant -u -s

I configured my Wireless-Interface like this:

allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet manual 
  pre-up /sbin/iwconfig wlan0 txpower auto
  wpa-driver wext
  wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/home.conf 
  post-down /sbin/iwconfig wlan0 txpower off

If I do a ifup wlan0, the wpa_supplicant is started twice, the already 
running process is not stopped. There is a conflict and the wlan0 does
not work.

I tried to stop the running process, but it restarts suddenly.
I replaced the /sbin/wpa_supplicant by a shell script with a sleep 86000
and killed the process so that it can not restart again. After this
I replaced the binary with the original one and made a ifup wlan0 and it
worked.

What is the Problem? Why is "/sbin/wpa_supplicant -u -s" always running?
On my other Laptop with Lenny there is no process running.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages wpasupplicant depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.112      add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-6   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.20-2   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libnl1                        1.1-5      library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libpcsclite1                  1.5.5-1    Middleware to access a smart card 
ii  libreadline6                  6.1-1      GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8                   0.9.8k-8   SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

wpasupplicant recommends no packages.

Versions of packages wpasupplicant suggests:
pn  libengine-pkcs11-openssl      <none>     (no description available)
pn  wpagui                        <none>     (no description available)

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