Hi Jordan, This is an issue that was reported in Launchpad at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apparmor/+bug/2098838. We are aware of what's broken and am working on a fixed AppArmor package that should resolve this breakage.
Ryan On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 5:49 AM Jordan Esh <esh.jor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have recently upgraded to Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) on my laptop, and > have been unable to successfully enable Wi-Fi. > After doing some digging, it seems that the configuration in the > wpa_supplicant profile for AppArmor might be the issue, as requests to create > a netlink socket and open the HW device are being denied. > I'm new to AppArmor, but if somebody could point me in the right direction, > I'm happy to test some changes to the profile and open a PR on GitLab. Any > help would be greatly appreciated :) > > Device: ThinkPad-E470 > AppArmor: amd64 4.1.0~beta5-0ubuntu2 > Distro: Ubuntu 25.04 > Kernel 6.12.0-15-generic > > Relevant dmesg output: >> >> [ 8667.092192] audit: type=1400 audit(1740054455.567:405): apparmor="DENIED" >> operation="create" class="net" profile="wpa_supplicant" pid=13506 >> comm="wpa_supplicant" family="netlink" sock_type="raw" protocol=0 >> requested="create" denied="create" >> [ 8667.092289] audit: type=1400 audit(1740054455.568:408): apparmor="DENIED" >> operation="open" class="file" profile="wpa_supplicant" >> name="/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.3/0000:05:00.0/ieee80211/phy0/name" >> pid=13506 comm="wpa_supplicant" requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=0 >> ouid=0 >> [ 8667.092303] audit: type=1400 audit(1740054455.568:409): apparmor="DENIED" >> operation="create" class="net" profile="wpa_supplicant" pid=13506 >> comm="wpa_supplicant" family="inet" sock_type="dgram" protocol=0 >> requested="create" denied="create" >> [ 9502.961011] audit: type=1107 audit(1740055291.439:410): pid=1323 uid=101 >> auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=unconfined msg='apparmor="DENIED" >> operation="dbus_method_call" bus="system" path="/fi/w1/wpa_supplicant1" >> interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="GetAll" name=":1.287" >> mask="receive" pid=15679 label="wpa_supplicant" peer_pid=13634 >> peer_label="unconfined" > > > wpa_supplicant systemctl status output: >> >> Feb 20 23:44:09 jordan-ThinkPad-E470 wpa_supplicant[15679]: >> socket(PF_INET,SOCK_DGRAM): Permission denied >> Feb 20 23:44:09 jordan-ThinkPad-E470 wpa_supplicant[15679]: >> socket(PF_INET,SOCK_DGRAM): Permission denied >> Feb 20 23:44:09 jordan-ThinkPad-E470 wpa_supplicant[15679]: wlp5s0: Failed >> to initialize driver interface >> Feb 20 23:44:09 jordan-ThinkPad-E470 wpa_supplicant[15679]: wlp5s0: >> CTRL-EVENT-DSCP-POLICY clear_all >> Feb 20 23:44:19 jordan-ThinkPad-E470 wpa_supplicant[15679]: netlink: Failed >> to open netlink socket: Permission denied >> Feb 20 23:44:19 jordan-ThinkPad-E470 wpa_supplicant[15679]: Failed to >> initialize driver 'nl80211' >> Feb 20 23:44:19 jordan-ThinkPad-E470 wpa_supplicant[15679]: >> socket(PF_INET,SOCK_DGRAM): Permission denied >> Feb 20 23:44:19 jordan-ThinkPad-E470 wpa_supplicant[15679]: >> socket(PF_INET,SOCK_DGRAM): Permission denied >> Feb 20 23:44:19 jordan-ThinkPad-E470 wpa_supplicant[15679]: wlp5s0: Failed >> to initialize driver interface >> Feb 20 23:44:19 jordan-ThinkPad-E470 wpa_supplicant[15679]: wlp5s0: >> CTRL-EVENT-DSCP-POLICY clear_all > > > NetworkManager systemctl status output: >> >> Feb 20 23:43:39 jordan-ThinkPad-E470 NetworkManager[16051]: <error> >> [1740055419.5700] device (wlp5s0): Couldn't initialize supplicant interface: >> GDBus.Error:fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1.UnknownError: wpa_supplicant couldn't grab >> this interface. >> Feb 20 23:43:49 jordan-ThinkPad-E470 NetworkManager[16051]: <warn> >> [1740055429.5650] device (wlp5s0): re-acquiring supplicant interface (#2). >> Feb 20 23:43:49 jordan-ThinkPad-E470 NetworkManager[16051]: <error> >> [1740055429.5660] device (wlp5s0): Couldn't initialize supplicant interface: >> GDBus.Error:fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1.UnknownError: wpa_supplicant couldn't grab >> this interface. >> Feb 20 23:43:59 jordan-ThinkPad-E470 NetworkManager[16051]: <warn> >> [1740055439.5657] device (wlp5s0): re-acquiring supplicant interface (#3). >> Feb 20 23:43:59 jordan-ThinkPad-E470 NetworkManager[16051]: <error> >> [1740055439.5714] device (wlp5s0): Couldn't initialize supplicant interface: >> GDBus.Error:fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1.UnknownError: wpa_supplicant couldn't grab >> this interface. >> Feb 20 23:44:09 jordan-ThinkPad-E470 NetworkManager[16051]: <warn> >> [1740055449.5719] device (wlp5s0): re-acquiring supplicant interface (#4). >> Feb 20 23:44:09 jordan-ThinkPad-E470 NetworkManager[16051]: <error> >> [1740055449.5763] device (wlp5s0): Couldn't initialize supplicant interface: >> GDBus.Error:fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1.UnknownError: wpa_supplicant couldn't grab >> this interface. >> Feb 20 23:44:19 jordan-ThinkPad-E470 NetworkManager[16051]: <warn> >> [1740055459.5658] device (wlp5s0): re-acquiring supplicant interface (#5). >> Feb 20 23:44:19 jordan-ThinkPad-E470 NetworkManager[16051]: <error> >> [1740055459.5712] device (wlp5s0): Couldn't initialize supplicant interface: >> GDBus.Error:fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1.UnknownError: wpa_supplicant couldn't grab >> this interface. >> Feb 20 23:44:19 jordan-ThinkPad-E470 NetworkManager[16051]: <info> >> [1740055459.5713] device (wlp5s0): supplicant interface keeps failing, >> giving up > >
