bug 1210875 ??? - internal error 13.10 - /sbin/wpa_supplicant crash

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get these details: no copy makeable

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#1

I suggest you report a bug

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kris (kris8) said :
#2

when i tipped "continue", the report disappeared
iwait for next time
could not copy the reports saying

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#3

Do things work after teh error vanishes?

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kris (kris8) said :
#4

it happens after awaking from suspend - beyond no problem
how can i copy the details of that internal error ?
should i act ?

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said :
#5

It seems to me that you swapped digits in the title.
There is bug #1210785 "wpa_supplicant crashed with SIGSEGV" which seems to be covering your problem.
According to that bug report, there is a patched version of the wpasupplicant package available in saucy-proposed, you might try installing it.

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kris (kris8) said :
#6

i didn't send the title but the first line - executable path
so it is bug 1210875, but difficult to understand
is that the only line to write into the terminal ? : "rm -f /var/crash/_sbin_wpa*"

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said :
#7

No not 1210_87_5 but 1210_78_5!

You have to install the wpasupplicant package from saucy-proposed.
See the first paragraph of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed.

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kris (kris8) said :
#8

i enabled saucy-proposed updates.
i wrote in terminal:
sudo touch /etc/apt/preferences
sudo nano /etc/apt/preferences
i am here now and cannot exit or save or what now:

 GNU nano 2.2.6 File: /etc/apt/preferences Modified

package: wpasupplicant
Pin: release a=saucy-proposed
Pin-Priority: 400

when i try to close the terminal:
"There is still a process running in this terminal. Closing the terminal will kill it."

i don't really know what i'm doing here, just trying to follow the advices. so how do i finish creating that file.

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kris (kris8) said :
#9

ok, just found out that this "^" means press ctrl. file is saved. i continue this procedure.

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kris (kris8) said :
#10

after "sudo apt-get upgrade -s" i got 75 upgrades including wpasupplicant and 5 not upgraded.
is that finished now or do i also need "sudo apt-get install wpasupplicant/saucy-proposed" ?

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said :
#11

Apparently you have already enabled saucy-proposed as repository.

You now have two possibilities:

1. selectively just upgrade wpasupplicant
you can do that with the commands
sudo apt-get install wpasupplicant
or
sudo apt-get install wpasupplicant/saucy-proposed

2. upgrade ALL packages that have a higher version in saucy-proposed
with the command
sudo apt-get upgrade

I personally would select the first choice, and then disable the saucy-proposed repository again to prevent that other packages get upgraded.
How many packages are listed for the command
sudo apt-get -s install wpasupplicant

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kris (kris8) said :
#12

ok so far! - the 75 upgrades i got already after "sudo apt-get upgrade -s".
saucy-proposed repository is set disabled again.
so now shall i write into the terminal "apt-get autoremove" as last task!? - exept from a fresh backup

kris@kris-X450JF:~$ sudo apt-get -s install wpasupplicant
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
wpasupplicant is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  exo-utils libexo-1-0 libexo-common libexo-helpers libgarcon-1-0
  libgarcon-common libxfce4ui-1-0 libxfce4util-bin libxfce4util-common
  libxfce4util6 libxfconf-0-2 xfce-keyboard-shortcuts xfce4-panel xfconf
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 79 not upgraded.
kris@kris-X450JF:~$

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said :
#13

"sudo apt-get autoremove" is a command for general housekeeeping and not related to your wpasupplicant problem.

Background:
Suppose you want to try using a package "a" and install it with "sudo apt-get install a" (or software-center etc). Assuming that package "a" is depending on the presence of package "b" the installation command wil automatically also install package "b".
Later you decide that the package "a" does not suit your needs, and you deinstall package "a" again. This will lead to the situation that package "b" stays installed, although no other package needs it any more.
The command "sudo apt-get autoremove" will deinstall all such packages that are neither marked as manually installed, nor dependencies by other packages, nor packages marked as crucial.

Are you aware that the "-s" option is a synonym for --simulate, so "sudo apt-get -s upgrade" will only simulate an upgrade, but will not change anything?

What is the output of
dpkg -l wpasupplicant

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kris (kris8) said :
#14

thanks manfred,for your easy and patient explanation

kris@kris-X450JF:~$ dpkg -l wpasupplicant
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
ii wpasupplicant 1.0-3ubuntu2 amd64 client support for WPA and WPA2 (
kris@kris-X450JF:~$

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said :
#15

My command did not provide the information I was looking for (due to text being truncated in the output).

Please provide the output of

apt-cache policy wpasupplicant

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kris (kris8) said :
#16

kris@kris-X450JF:~$ apt-cache policy wpasupplicant
wpasupplicant:
  Installed: 1.0-3ubuntu2.1
  Candidate: 1.0-3ubuntu2.1
  Package pin: (not found)
  Version table:
 *** 1.0-3ubuntu2.1 400
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.0-3ubuntu2 400
        500 http://th.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/main amd64 Packages
kris@kris-X450JF:~$

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Best Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said :
#17

Ok, this confirms that you have the updated package installed.

Due to the fact that the updated package meanwhile has been moved to saucy-updates, you can undo all changes with respect to the -proposed repository.

disable saucy-updates in the update configuration dialogue
execute the terminal commands
sudo rm /etc/apt/preferences
sudo apt-get update

Done.

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kris (kris8) said :
#18

super-thanks to manfred from koh samui

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kris (kris8) said :
#19

Thanks Manfred Hampl, that solved my question.