Comment 7 for bug 44194

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Reinhard Tartler (siretart) wrote : Re: [Bug 44194] Re: wpasupplicant doesn't start when the network start

Alessio Gaeta <email address hidden> writes:
> maybe there is some odd interaction with udev rule ifupdown.rules?
> Udev is started before than Networking in the init process and (as far
> as I understood) tries to configure the interfaces it found. So, when
> Networking starts, interfaces are already brought up (and in fact I
> can't do ifup directly to make eth1 working). Am I saying nonsense?

I think that is very likly. In debian, there is no udev rule at all, and
things work as intended. In udev, ifupdown is called via udev. It seems
to me that for some reason wpasupplicant either

a) fails to start
b) gets killed by udev

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