Bug 949938

Summary: installation does not work over wifi - interface (null)
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE Distribution Reporter: Rihards Olups <richlv>
Component: InstallationAssignee: Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P3 - Medium CC: aspiers, dimstar, forgotten_ETh-frTLtx, hkuehnemund, locilka, rgherlea, richlv, snwint
Version: Leap 42.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: HP   
OS: Other   
URL: https://trello.com/c/PsgenvwE
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Description Rihards Olups 2015-10-12 08:27:11 UTC
User-Agent:       Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux x86_64) Presto/2.12.388 Version/12.16
Build Identifier: 

(searched for existing reports for quite some time, found none)

when attempting to use wpa-psk wifi during the installation, it fails. first, there are several messages (might be unrelated ?) of :
"Oops, secure memory pool already initialized"

then it tries to set up the wifi device (wlan0) and prints out the following commandline:
wpa_supplicant -B -Dwext -i(null) -c/tmp/wpa_supplicant.conf

this fails with :
sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token '('

apparently, interface name is not replaced properly here.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Lukas Ocilka 2015-10-12 09:12:16 UTC
Steffen, is this in Linuxrc?
Comment 2 Steffen Winterfeldt 2015-10-12 09:57:23 UTC
Could be.

Rihards what exactly did you do?
Comment 3 Rihards Olups 2015-10-12 12:30:39 UTC
start the net installation image, choose wpa-psk, enter correct ssid and key, then the failure happened
Comment 4 Steffen Winterfeldt 2015-10-12 13:11:31 UTC
That would be linuxrc, then.

Sorry, since the switch to wicked the wifi support is still unfinished. :-(

It should be possible to provide the necessary ifcg-keys directly, see
bug 898977 comment 0.

If you do this, does it work?
Comment 5 Rihards Olups 2015-10-12 17:31:25 UTC
thanks, it does indeed work in that case. for the record, parameters used :

ifcfg=wlan0=dhcp,WIRELESS_ESSID=<SSID>,WIRELESS_AUTH_MODE=psk,WIRELESS_WPA_PSK=<key>
Comment 6 Lukas Ocilka 2015-10-13 09:15:03 UTC
Thanks for checking

Steffen, so I'll reassign to you. Incoming board?
Comment 7 Steffen Winterfeldt 2015-10-13 09:19:51 UTC
yes, needs a card
Comment 8 Steffen Winterfeldt 2015-10-13 12:11:29 UTC
put into incoming board
Comment 9 Dominique Leuenberger 2015-10-19 12:41:19 UTC
bug 949938 and bug 898825 are DUPs of each other.

@Steffen: both are assigned to you; I'm not sure which one you prefer to keep open (both have about the same amount of relevant info); please feel free to chose your candidate and close the other one as DUP
Comment 10 Steffen Winterfeldt 2015-10-19 13:35:44 UTC
*** Bug 898825 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11 Steffen Winterfeldt 2015-11-06 16:18:28 UTC
Finally fixed. Will go into Tumbleweed and later into the next Leap and
sle12 versions.

https://github.com/openSUSE/linuxrc/pull/91
Comment 12 Steffen Winterfeldt 2016-03-16 12:00:18 UTC
*** Bug 971222 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 13 Adam Spiers 2016-03-16 12:57:37 UTC
Hmm, this should have been in Leap's release notes :-/

https://doc.opensuse.org/release-notes/x86_64/openSUSE/Leap/42.1/

I would have added it to the "Most Annoying Bugs 42.1" wiki page:

https://en.opensuse.org/index.php?title=openSUSE:Most_annoying_bugs_42.1&action=edit

but I'm autoblocked from editing for reasons explained here:

https://en.opensuse.org/User:Cboltz

Please could one of you add it to that page?
Comment 14 Stefan Hundhammer 2016-03-21 13:46:55 UTC
*** Bug 971952 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 15 Martin Vidner 2016-08-30 14:16:40 UTC
*** Bug 995781 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***