On 13/05/2019 22:51, Andrej Shadura wrote: > Could you please provide more details?
# l /etc/hostapd ls: cannot access '/etc/hostapd': No such file or directory # apt policy hostapd hostapd: Installed: (none) Candidate: 2:2.7+git20190128+0c1e29f-5 Version table: 2:2.7+git20190128+0c1e29f-5 500 500 https://deb.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages # apt policy Package files: 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status release a=now 400 https://deb.debian.org/debian buster-proposed-updates/main amd64 Packages release o=Debian,a=testing-proposed-updates,n=buster-proposed-updates,l=Debian,c=main,b=amd64 origin deb.debian.org 500 https://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates/main amd64 Packages release o=Debian,a=testing,n=buster,l=Debian-Security,c=main,b=amd64 origin deb.debian.org 500 https://deb.debian.org/debian buster/non-free amd64 Packages release o=Debian,a=testing,n=buster,l=Debian,c=non-free,b=amd64 origin deb.debian.org 500 https://deb.debian.org/debian buster/contrib amd64 Packages release o=Debian,a=testing,n=buster,l=Debian,c=contrib,b=amd64 origin deb.debian.org 500 https://deb.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages release o=Debian,a=testing,n=buster,l=Debian,c=main,b=amd64 origin deb.debian.org Pinned packages: # apt install hostapd Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: hostapd 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 778 kB of archives. After this operation, 2082 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 https://cdn-aws.deb.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 hostapd amd64 2:2.7+git20190128+0c1e29f-5 [778 kB] Fetched 778 kB in 1s (700 kB/s) debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed Selecting previously unselected package hostapd. (Reading database ... 42783 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../hostapd_2%3a2.7+git20190128+0c1e29f-5_amd64.deb ... Unpacking hostapd (2:2.7+git20190128+0c1e29f-5) ... Setting up hostapd (2:2.7+git20190128+0c1e29f-5) ... Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/hostapd.service → /dev/null. Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/hostapd.service → /lib/systemd/system/hostapd.service. Job for hostapd.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status hostapd.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.5-2) ... Processing triggers for systemd (241-3) ... Scanning processes... Scanning candidates... Scanning processor microcode... Scanning linux images... Running kernel seems to be up-to-date. The processor microcode seems to be up-to-date. Restarting services... Service restarts being deferred: systemctl restart libvirtd.service No containers need to be restarted. No user sessions are running outdated binaries. # tail -f /var/log/syslog | grep hostap systemd[1]: hostapd.service: Service RestartSec=2s expired, scheduling restart. systemd[1]: hostapd.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 71. hostapd[24428]: Configuration file: /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf hostapd[24428]: Could not open configuration file '/etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf' for reading. hostapd[24428]: Failed to set up interface with /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf hostapd[24428]: Failed to initialize interface systemd[1]: hostapd.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE systemd[1]: hostapd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. systemd[1]: hostapd.service: Service RestartSec=2s expired, scheduling restart. systemd[1]: hostapd.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 72. hostapd[24429]: Configuration file: /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf hostapd[24429]: Could not open configuration file '/etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf' for reading. hostapd[24429]: Failed to set up interface with /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf hostapd[24429]: Failed to initialize interface systemd[1]: hostapd.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE systemd[1]: hostapd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. > The postinst is set up in a way so that if /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf > is not readable or missing, the hostapd.service is masked during the > package installation unless it was already running. Looks like it's not masked. > From what you wrote it sounds like the package hasn’t been installed > before, but then it wouldn’t run by default. The package was installed before, than purged, configs were removed. -- sergio.