Persistent request for wifi authorization SOLVED

Applescruff · Last edited by Applescruff on Fri Dec 10, 2021 2:13 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hello Gentoo Community
I have installed Profile 8 desktop/plasma on a Tuxedo Polaris. Finally established a WiFi connection with KDE DesktopManager today. The wifi connects with my home network with 100% signal strength, yet every 40 seconds the WiFi password dialog - KDE Daemon appears asking for the password again. Without response the connetion disconnects.

Here is boot log info from /var/log/rc.log

rc shutdown logging started at Wed Nov 24 16:36:54 2021

* Stopping local ...
[ ok ]
* Saving random seed ...
[ ok ]
* Stopping sshd ...
[ ok ]
* Stopping sddm ...
* start-stop-daemon: 1 process refused to stop
* Error stopping sddm
[ !! ]
* ERROR: display-manager failed to stop
* Unmounting network filesystems ...
[ ok ]
* Stopping cupsd ...
[ ok ]
* Stopping cronie ...
[ ok ]
* Stopping NetworkManager ...
* start-stop-daemon: 1 process refused to stop
[ !! ]
* ERROR: NetworkManager failed to stop
* Stopping sysklogd ...
[ ok ]
* Stopping dbus ...
[ ok ]
* Unmounting loop devices
* Unmounting filesystems
* Unmounting /boot ...
[ ok ]
* Deactivating swap devices ...
[ ok ]
* Setting hardware clock using the system clock [UTC] ...
[ ok ]
* Stopping udev ...
[ ok ]

rc shutdown logging stopped at Wed Nov 24 16:37:27 2021

rc shutdown logging started at Wed Nov 24 16:36:54 2021

* Stopping local ...
[ ok ]
* Saving random seed ...
[ ok ]
* Stopping sshd ...
[ ok ]
* Stopping sddm ...
* start-stop-daemon: 1 process refused to stop
* Error stopping sddm
[ !! ]
* ERROR: display-manager failed to stop
* Unmounting network filesystems ...
[ ok ]
* Stopping cupsd ...
[ ok ]
* Stopping cronie ...
[ ok ]
* Stopping NetworkManager ...
* start-stop-daemon: 1 process refused to stop
[ !! ]
* ERROR: NetworkManager failed to stop
* Stopping sysklogd ...
[ ok ]
* Stopping dbus ...
[ ok ]
* Unmounting loop devices
* Unmounting filesystems
* Unmounting /boot ...
[ ok ]
* Deactivating swap devices ...
[ ok ]
* Setting hardware clock using the system clock [UTC] ...
[ ok ]
* Stopping udev ...
[ ok ]

rc shutdown logging stopped at Wed Nov 24 16:37:27 2021

rc sysinit logging started at Wed Nov 24 16:37:51 2021

OpenRC 0.44.8 is starting up Gentoo Linux (x86_64)

* /proc is already mounted
* /run/openrc: creating directory
* /run/lock: creating directory
* /run/lock: correcting owner
* Caching service dependencies ...
[ ok ]
* Mounting security filesystem ...
[ ok ]
* Mounting debug filesystem ...
[ ok ]
* Mounting SELinux filesystem ...
[ ok ]
* Mounting persistent storage (pstore) filesystem ...
[ ok ]
* Mounting efivarfs filesystem ...
[ ok ]
* Mounting cgroup filesystem ...
[ ok ]
* Remounting devtmpfs on /dev ...
[ ok ]
* Mounting /dev/mqueue ...
[ ok ]
* Creating list of required static device nodes for the current kernel ...
[ ok ]
* Setting up tmpfiles.d entries for /dev ...
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/mysql.conf:1: Line references path below legacy directory /var/run/, updating /var/run/mysqld /run/mysqld; please update the tmpfiles.d/ drop-in file accordingly.
[ ok ]
* Starting udev ...
[ ok ]
* Generating a rule to create a /dev/root symlink ...
[ ok ]
* Populating /dev with existing devices through uevents ...
[ ok ]

rc sysinit logging stopped at Wed Nov 24 16:37:51 2021

rc boot logging started at Wed Nov 24 16:37:51 2021

* Loading module pkcs8_key_parser ...
[ ok ]
* Setting system clock using the hardware clock [UTC] ...
[ ok ]
* Mounting misc binary format filesystem ...
[ ok ]
* Loading custom binary format handlers ...
[ ok ]
* Checking local filesystems ...
/dev/nvme0n1p3: clean, 1132891/60760064 files, 18608012/243010737 blocks
fsck.fat 4.2 (2021-01-31)
/dev/nvme0n1p1: 369 files, 19458/130812 clusters
[ ok ]
* Remounting root filesystem read/write ...
[ ok ]
* Remounting filesystems ...
[ ok ]
* Updating /etc/mtab ...
* Creating mtab symbolic link
[ ok ]
* Activating swap devices ...
[ ok ]
* Mounting local filesystems ...
[ ok ]
* Configuring kernel parameters ...
[ ok ]
* Creating user login records ...
[ ok ]
* Wiping /tmp directory ...
[ ok ]
* Setting hostname to Polaris ...
[ ok ]
* Setting terminal encoding [UTF-8] ...
[ ok ]
* Setting keyboard mode [UTF-8] ...
[ ok ]
* Loading key mappings [us] ...
[ ok ]
* Bringing up network interface lo ...
[ ok ]
* Saving key mapping ...
[ ok ]
* Saving terminal encoding ...
[ ok ]
* Setting up tmpfiles.d entries ...
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/mysql.conf:1: Line references path below legacy directory /var/run/, updating /var/run/mysqld /run/mysqld; please update the tmpfiles.d/ drop-in file accordingly.
[ ok ]
* Initializing random number generator ...
[ ok ]
* Starting WPA Supplicant Daemon ...
Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant
[ ok ]

rc boot logging stopped at Wed Nov 24 16:37:53 2021

rc default logging started at Wed Nov 24 16:37:53 2021

* Starting dbus ...
[ ok ]
* Starting iwd ...
[ ok ]
* Starting sysklogd ...
[ ok ]
* Starting NetworkManager ...
[ ok ]
Connecting........ 1sConnecting......... 1sConnecting.......... 1sConnecting........... 1sConnecting............ 1sConnecting............. 1sConnecting.............. 1sConnecting............... 1sConnecting............... 0s [offline]
* Marking NetworkManager as inactive. It will automatically be marked
* as started after a network connection has been established.
* WARNING: NetworkManager has started, but is inactive
* Starting cronie ...
[ ok ]
* Bringing up interface wlan0
* Caching network module dependencies
* Starting wpa_supplicant on wlan0 ...
Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant
nl80211: kernel reports: Match already configured
nl80211: kernel reports: Match already configured
nl80211: kernel reports: Match already configured
nl80211: kernel reports: Match already configured
nl80211: kernel reports: Match already configured
nl80211: kernel reports: Match already configured
nl80211: kernel reports: Match already configured
nl80211: kernel reports: Match already configured
nl80211: kernel reports: Match already configured
nl80211: kernel reports: Match already configured
nl80211: kernel reports: Match already configured
nl80211: kernel reports: Match already configured
nl80211: kernel reports: Match already configured
nl80211: kernel reports: Match already configured
nl80211: kernel reports: Match already configured
nl80211: kernel reports: Match already configured
nl80211: kernel reports: Match already configured
nl80211: kernel reports: Match already configured
nl80211: kernel reports: Match already configured
nl80211: kernel reports: Match already configured
nl80211: kernel reports: Match already configured
nl80211: kernel reports: Match already configured
[ ok ]
* Starting wpa_cli on wlan0 ...
[ ok ]
* Backgrounding ... ...
* WARNING: net.wlan0 has started, but is inactive
* Starting cupsd ...
[ ok ]
* WARNING: netmount will start when net.wlan0, NetworkManager has started
* Starting sshd ...
[ ok ]
* Setting up sddm ...
[ ok ]
* Starting local ...
[ ok ]

rc default logging stopped at Wed Nov 24 16:37:56 2021

alamahant · Advocate Joined: 23 Mar 2019 Posts: 3879

Hi
Welcome to Gentoo forums.

You are using NetworkManager.
So please disable wpa_supplicant.
Also you seem to be using selinux.
Plz set it to permissive.
Or even better to DISABLED if you want a satisfying Desktop experience.
I see in your output

Applescruff · Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2021 1:01 pm Post subject:

Thank you.
After cleaning up, removed iwd, and rewriting some config files I now have wireless connection using dhcpcd which pulls in wpa_supplicant.
So many choices, so much yet to learn.

Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21607

Could you describe your changes in more detail, so that anyone else who has this problem can apply your solution?

If you are satisfied that your problem is fully solved, please edit the thread title to mark the thread as solved.

Applescruff · Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2021 2:19 pm Post subject:

I can see I need to take detailed notes on all the actions I take to solve the problems I encounter. Thank you again for all your help. I know I will benefit from Forum Moderators and community in my future learning Gentoo.

eccerr0r · Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2021 12:02 am Post subject:

It looks like the OP started wpa_supplicant (/etc/init.d/wpa_supplicant start or enabled it via etc-update) when networkmanager is also started, which should not be the case. Networkmanager starts wpa_supplicant on its own. If one runs both as a daemon and started from networkmanager, it would confuse the hardware, causing the symptoms seen.

Thanks for bringing this up, now I have to go check if I did the same mistake on one of my machines that had the same issue (alas, the issue went away when I swapped wifi cards so I don't think it's the same issue.)
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