FAIL profile is active with netctl-auto

[arcan1s]

If I type netctl-auto list it shows the following:

$ netctl-auto list
* FAIL
  273
  wifi0-437k
  c47
  exante
  543
  arcanis_ideapad
  arcanis
  home

(with and without sudo). But in my profile directory I see no such profile:

$ ls /etc/netctl
examples  hooks  interfaces  273  543  arcanis  arcanis_ideapad  c47  exante  home  server  sim  wifi0-437k

Currently enabled profile is c47 and here is profile details:

Description='c47 audience of Faculty of Chemistry inet'
Interface=wifi0
Connection=wireless
Security=wpa
ESSID=c-47
IP=dhcp
Key=<snip>
DNS=('8.8.8.8')

In my logs I see the following strings (with debug mode disabled):

-- Logs begin at Чт 2016-02-11 10:51:56 MSK, end at Пт 2016-02-12 13:15:44 MSK. --
фев 12 12:42:30 ARCANIS-T440 systemd[1]: Starting Automatic wireless network connection using netctl profiles...
фев 12 12:42:30 ARCANIS-T440 netctl-auto[505]: Included profile '273'
фев 12 12:42:30 ARCANIS-T440 netctl-auto[505]: Included profile 'wifi0-437k'
фев 12 12:42:30 ARCANIS-T440 netctl-auto[505]: Included profile 'c47'
фев 12 12:42:30 ARCANIS-T440 netctl-auto[505]: Included profile 'exante'
фев 12 12:42:30 ARCANIS-T440 netctl-auto[505]: Included profile '543'
фев 12 12:42:30 ARCANIS-T440 netctl-auto[505]: Included profile 'arcanis_ideapad'
фев 12 12:42:30 ARCANIS-T440 netctl-auto[505]: Included profile 'arcanis'
фев 12 12:42:30 ARCANIS-T440 netctl-auto[505]: Included profile 'home'
фев 12 12:42:31 ARCANIS-T440 netctl-auto[505]: Failed to initialize control interface '/run/wpa_supplicant'.
фев 12 12:42:31 ARCANIS-T440 netctl-auto[505]: You may have another wpa_supplicant process already running or the file was
фев 12 12:42:31 ARCANIS-T440 netctl-auto[505]: left by an unclean termination of wpa_supplicant in which case you will need
фев 12 12:42:31 ARCANIS-T440 netctl-auto[505]: to manually remove this file before starting wpa_supplicant again.
фев 12 12:42:31 ARCANIS-T440 wpa_actiond[752]: Starting wpa_actiond session for interface 'wifi0'
фев 12 12:42:31 ARCANIS-T440 systemd[1]: Started Automatic wireless network connection using netctl profiles.

After netctl-auto restart the issue has been resolved. If you need any logs and/or additional information just ask for it.

[joukewitteveen]

Maybe @gandro can take a look at this?

[gandro]

If you can reproduce it, the output of /bin/bash -x /usr/bin/netctl-auto list would be really helpful.

It's been a while since I worked on this, so I'm not sure what's going on. But I'll give it a closer look later.

[arcan1s]

Thank you for the response, I've looked once more on system stats (e.g. I was confused by several errors in journal) and found that at that moment I had enabled profile (mentioned c47), i.e. netctl-auto@wifi0 and netctl@c47 have been enabled at the same time.

So profile disabling solves the issue. In other hand I'm not sure that it is expected behaviour. Here is output of requested command.

[gandro]

I'm really confused by this. While it is clear the FAIL originates from wpa_cli -i wifi0 get_network 0 id_str, I don't understand how it can fail while all other calls before and after it succeed. I'm also not able to reproduce this on my machine.

Can you try reproduce the bug again and provide me the output of the wpa_cli -i wifi0 get_network 0 id_str command?

[arcan1s]

sure, it prints FAIL (from normal user and from root).