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Subject: Re: wpa_supplicant doesn't survive switch_root when started in initramfs
From: Jouni Malinen <j () w1 ! fi>
Date: 2012-12-22 13:34:50
Message-ID: 20121222133450.GB13713 () w1 ! fi
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On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 07:06:23PM -0600, Zack Buhman wrote:
> In a fairly heretical plan that involves having the root filesystem on
> an NFS server, I need to have wpa_supplicant start in initramfs... and
> survive the real root replacing the initramfs root.
>
> The latter seems to be quite the problem.
Why would that be a problem? Do you have any debug log information or
more details identifying the issue with the process started from
intramfs?
> In late boot, the wpa_supplicant started in early-boot is still hanging
> around.
> of course things get a little crazy when a second wpa_supplicant
> instance is started: http://sprunge.us/Qcdg
Why would you start a second instance? Trying to have multiple processes
trying to manage a single interface is not usually a good idea.. If you
want to start a new one, stop the previous process first.
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Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA
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