[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#538001: wpa_supplicant not stopped with with allow-hotplug and roaming mode

[Joachim Breitner]

Package: wpasupplicant
Version: 0.6.9-3
Severity: normal

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Hi,

I’m running wpa_supplicant on my FreeRunner in roaming mode, and with
allow-hotplug to start it. It starts fine, but when then the WLAN
interface is powered off and disappears (and udev/hotplug/something
calls ifdown eth0), wpa_supplicant is still running.

This is not surprising, given that wpa_action take over ifup/ifdown, and
ifdown does not work any more, but it would be nice if this could be
improved. Perferably by making ifdown eth0 work as expected. Have you
considered setting an environment variable when calling ifdown from
wpa_action, to be able to distinguish later?

Greetings from Caceres,
Joachim

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (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/bash

Versions of packages wpasupplicant depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.110      add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                         2.9-21     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.16-2   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libnl1                        1.1-5      library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libpcsclite1                  1.5.4-1    Middleware to access a smart card 
ii  libreadline5                  5.2-5      GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8                   0.9.8k-3   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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