Subject: Re: [Wireless, ath5k] 2.6.24-git13 9135f1901ee6449dfe338adf6e40e9c2025b8150

From: Jiri Slaby <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:25:15 +0100

On 02/04/2008 03:00 PM, Oliver Pinter (Pintér Olivér) wrote:
> git top: 9135f1901ee6449dfe338adf6e40e9c2025b8150
> 
> [  399.582185] wpa_supplicant[4383]: segfault at 30 ip 080697ca sp
> bf87a690 error 4 in wpa_supplicant[8048000+4c000]
> [  406.277199] wpa_supplicant[4384]: segfault at 30 ip 080697ca sp
> bfc13a30 error 4 in wpa_supplicant[8048000+4c000]
> [  407.586375] wpa_supplicant[4385]: segfault at 30 ip 080697ca sp
> bf9ed000 error 4 in wpa_supplicant[8048000+4c000]
> [  411.671037] wpa_supplicant[4386]: segfault at 30 ip 080697ca sp
> bf8f3710 error 4 in wpa_supplicant[8048000+4c000]
> [  412.569843] wpa_supplicant[4387]: segfault at 30 ip 080697ca sp
> bfc19a30 error 4 in wpa_supplicant[8048000+4c000]
> [  413.118874] wpa_supplicant[4388]: segfault at 30 ip 080697ca sp
> bfc9cab0 error 4 in wpa_supplicant[8048000+4c000]

Seems like wpa_supplicant is broken. Is this a regression?

> home:~# wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iath0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

ath0? udev renamed it?

> ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported
> WEXT auth param 4 value 0x0 - bind(PF_UNIX): Address already in use

4 - 0x0 is TKIP, nothing we should worry about.

> ctrl_iface exists and seems to be in use - cannot override it
> Delete '/var/run/wpa_supplicant/ath0' manually if it is not used anymore
> Failed to initialize control interface '/var/run/wpa_supplicant'.
> You may have another wpa_supplicant process already running or the file was
> left by an unclean termination of wpa_supplicant in which case you will need
> to manually remove this file before starting wpa_supplicant again.

Have you?

I guess ltrace would help here. And maybe strace...