[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#679770: hostapd doesn't start at all

[Jozsef Fejes]

Package: hostapd
Version: 1:1.0-2
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I've been running hostapd 0.7.3-4 in daemon mode and it's been working perfectly. Now I upgraded and it doesn't start
at all. It gives the following message:

[....] Starting advanced IEEE 802.11 management: hostapdrmdir[ctrl_interface]: No such file or directory
 failed!

Please advise how to debug this further.

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

Kernel: Linux 3.4.4-joco (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages hostapd depends on:
ii  initscripts       2.88dsf-22.1
ii  libc6             2.13-33
ii  libnl-3-200       3.2.7-3
ii  libnl-genl-3-200  3.2.7-3
ii  libssl1.0.0       1.0.1c-3
ii  lsb-base          4.1+Debian7

hostapd recommends no packages.

hostapd suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/hostapd changed:
DAEMON_CONF="/etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf"

/etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf'

-- no debconf information