Quoting Lyndon Brown (2022-12-02 23:04:55)
> Having done this I opened up gnome wifi settings and was faced with an
> empty access point list and a spinning activity indicator.
> 
> The problem turned out to be that the iwd service was failing to start.
> Trying to get it started with a manual `systemctl start` command
> failed. Toggling wifi on/off made no difference. I couldn't see any
> indication of what was wrong in dmesg or journalctl, so I tried a
> reboot. The iwd service started successfully upon rebooting.
> 
> Is it expected that switching over to iwd like this can't work without
> a reboot, or is there a bug?

It is not surprising to me that switching from one wifi daemon to
another may not go smooth.  I don't consider that a bug in either of
them.  I recommend (instead of filing as a speculative bugreport which
is not really actionable) that you try use and improve on this wikie
page: https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkManager/iwd


 - Jonas

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