Re: conf/145530: ntpdate rc needs wpa_supplicant to go online

[Garrett Cooper]

The following reply was made to PR conf/145530; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Garrett Cooper <yane...@gmail.com>
To: Piotr Smyrak <sm...@heron.pl>
Cc: freebsd-gn...@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: conf/145530: ntpdate rc needs wpa_supplicant to go online
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 22:37:44 -0700

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Piotr Smyrak <sm...@heron.pl> wrote:
>
>>Number: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 145530
>>Category: =A0 =A0 =A0 conf
>>Synopsis: =A0 =A0 =A0 ntpdate rc needs wpa_supplicant to go online
>>Confidential: =A0 no
>>Severity: =A0 =A0 =A0 non-critical
>>Priority: =A0 =A0 =A0 low
>>Responsible: =A0 =A0freebsd-bugs
>>State: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0open
>>Quarter:
>>Keywords:
>>Date-Required:
>>Class: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0sw-bug
>>Submitter-Id: =A0 current-users
>>Arrival-Date: =A0 Thu Apr 08 22:10:03 UTC 2010
>>Closed-Date:
>>Last-Modified:
>>Originator: =A0 =A0 Piotr Smyrak
>>Release: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE amd64
>>Organization:
>>Environment:
> FreeBSD dsk.smyrak.com 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #0: Sun Mar 14 17:22=
:16 CET 2010 =A0 =A0 root@dsk:/usr/obj/amd64/usr/src/sys/SMYRU =A0amd64
>>Description:
> Since I started to use wifi card with wpa_supplicant after upgrading to 8=
-STABLE on every boot ntpdate rc will fail to sync with time server, since =
it is run before wpa_supplicant does its work.
>
> See this thread:
> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=3D7277
>
> $ rcorder /etc/rc.d/*|grep -nE 'ntpdate|wpa'
> 68:/etc/rc.d/ntpdate
> 77:/etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant
>
>>How-To-Repeat:
> 1. disconnect any wired NIC
> 2. setup wifi to be configured via wpa_supplicant
> 3. set ntpdate_enable in rc.conf
> 4. reboot
>>Fix:
> Add wpa_supplicant to REQUIREs in ntpdate

This is actually a requirement for all network connectivity, not
just ntpdate.
Thanks for the report :),
-Garrett

[Doug Barton]

On 04/08/10 22:50, Garrett Cooper wrote:

> This is actually a requirement for all network connectivity, not
> just ntpdate.

rc.d/wpa_supplicant is one of those weird scripts that shouldn't
actually be in /etc/rc.d, it's only called by other stuff. It's called
in netif, which is already required by NETWORKING.

Doug

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