Should be in /lib so wpa_supplicant et. al. can be used before /usr is mounted

[Jürgen Kreileder]

wpa_supplicant was moved to /sbin recently but it still isn't usable before /usr is mounted because it depends on libssl, libcrypto, and libz which are located in /usr/lib:

$ ldd -r /sbin/wpa_supplicant
        linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
        libssl.so.0.9.8 => /usr/lib/i686/cmov/libssl.so.0.9.8 (0x6fed8000)
        libcrypto.so.0.9.8 => /usr/lib/i686/cmov/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 (0x6fdaa000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0x6fda6000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0x6fc77000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x6fc63000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x6ff24000)

[Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis)]

Forgive me my ignorance, but why is this a bug?

[Jürgen Kreileder (jk)]

What's the point of having wpa_supplicant in /sbin then?

The problem I'm seeing is that the interface is ifup-ed by udev while booting. The interface needs wpa_supplicant but /usr isn't mounted yet => wpa_supplicant doesn't run and the interface doesn't work.

[Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis)]

Ah I see :)

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

I guess this is "libssl should be in /lib", unfortunately it's too late to change that in dapper I think -- we'll just have to live with this for now.

It is a bug though

[Carthik Sharma (carthik)]

So has this been fixed in Edgy?

[Jürgen Kreileder (jk)]

No, the situation hasn't changed.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

openssl097 is no longer used by wpasupplicant.

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

Scott Kitterman <email address hidden> writes:

> openssl097 is no longer used by wpasupplicant.

errm, sorry?

siretart@faui44a:~ $ dpkg -s wpasupplicant
Package: wpasupplicant
[...]
Version: 0.6.0+0.5.8-0ubuntu1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.6-1), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.1.1), libncurses5 (>= 5.6),
  libreadline5 (>= 5.2), libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8e-1), lsb-base (>= 3.0-6)

  status: confirmed

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[Jürgen Kreileder (jk)]

Change package to openssl and state to confirmed. wpa_supplicant 0.6.0+0.5.8-0ubuntu1 still depends on libssl which still is in /usr.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

This was fixed a couple of years ago as bug 44194, in openssl 0.9.8g-15ubuntu2.