[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#622757: wpasupplicant: Faulty ifupdown/functions.sh script?

[Sedat Dilek]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Kel Modderman <kel at otaku42.de> wrote:
>> On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:50:30 PM Sedat Dilek wrote:
>>> Package: wpasupplicant
>>> Version: 0.7.3-2
>>> Severity: normal
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> with wpasupplicant-0.7.3 entering Debian/sid my Internet connection is
>>> not established anymore.
>>>
>>> By replacing the ifupdown/functions.sh script from wpasupplicant
>>> (0.6.10-2.1) things are as used to.
>>> I haven't got the time to look deeper into this as it WorksForMe.
>>>
>>> I have collected all relevant material (/e/n/i), the files of
>>> ifupdown-dirs from 0.6.10 and 0.7.3 (see also the diffs) and added my
>>> dsc|diff files into the attached tarball.
>>>
>>> If this kind of matters I use systemd as sysvinit replacement and
>>> resolvconf helps for static-IP network setup.
>>> Furthermore, I have no ifplugd or suggested libengine-pkcs11-openssl installed.
>>>
>>> If you have detailed instructions on how to investigate the issue,
>>> please let me know.
>>
>> Without reviewing any diff, it could be related to #622589
>>
>> Kel.
>>
>
> Thanks for the reference.
>
> As a quick solution like proposed by Sergio WorksForMe, an
> error-message does not hurt:
>
> --- wpasupplicant-0.7.3.orig/debian/ifupdown/functions.sh
> 2010-05-02 10:41:33.000000000 +0200
> +++ wpasupplicant-0.7.3/debian/ifupdown/functions.sh    2011-04-15
> 15:26:50.200897565 +0200
> @@ -281,7 +281,11 @@ init_wpa_supplicant () {
>
>        if [ -n "$WPA_SUP_OMIT_PIDFILE" ]; then
>                wpa_msg verbose "creating sendsigs omission pidfile:
> $WPA_SUP_OMIT_PIDFILE"
> +               sleep 1
>                cat "$WPA_SUP_PIDFILE" > "$WPA_SUP_OMIT_PIDFILE"
> +       else
> +               wpa_msg stderr "$WPA_SUP_BIN daemon could not create
> sendsigs omission pidfile"
> +               return 1
>        fi
>  }
>
> Best would be to wait till $WPA_SUP_PIDFILE really exists and do some
> value-check.
>
> - Sedat -
>

This hackery does work with sysvinit but not with systemd.
I switched back to functions.sh from old 0.6.x package.

- Sedat -