wpa_supplicant|2.5-73.1 update kills wireless

After an update last week NetworkManager stopped seeing connections, with this output:

name@linux-2qhx:~> systemctl status NetworkManager.service -l
NetworkManager.service - Network Manager
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service; enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Sun 2016-02-21 22:42:10 GMT; 1min 5s ago
 Main PID: 812 (NetworkManager)
   CGroup: /system.slice/NetworkManager.service
           └─812 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                     
Feb 21 22:42:10 linux-2qhx.site NetworkManager[812]: <info> (wlp2s0): using nl80211 for WiFi device control                                                                          
Feb 21 22:42:10 linux-2qhx.site NetworkManager[812]: <info> (wlp2s0): driver supports Access Point (AP) mode                                                                         
Feb 21 22:42:10 linux-2qhx.site NetworkManager[812]: <info> (wlp2s0): new 802.11 WiFi device (driver: 'ath9k' ifindex: 3)                                                            
Feb 21 22:42:10 linux-2qhx.site NetworkManager[812]: <info> (wlp2s0): exported as /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/2                                                         
Feb 21 22:42:10 linux-2qhx.site NetworkManager[812]: <info> (wlp2s0): device state change: unmanaged -> unavailable (reason 'managed') [10 20 2]                                    
Feb 21 22:42:10 linux-2qhx.site NetworkManager[812]: <info> (wlp2s0): preparing device                                                                                              
Feb 21 22:42:10 linux-2qhx.site NetworkManager[812]: <info> ModemManager available in the bus                                                                                       
Feb 21 22:42:35 linux-2qhx.site NetworkManager[812]: <warn> Unexpected error requesting supplicant properties: (4) Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.                                    
Feb 21 22:42:35 linux-2qhx.site NetworkManager[812]: <info> (wlp2s0): supplicant interface state: starting -> init                                                                   
Feb 21 22:42:36 linux-2qhx.site NetworkManager[812]: <info> use BlueZ version 5      


I used an ethernet connection to downgrade wpa_supplicant to the previous version in YAST which is working again perfectly. Has anyone else had this problem, and what could be the cause? I don’t want to have to deny updates to a component if it can be helped…

Sounds like something you should report, create a new bug at

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org

TSU

Thanks, I’ll do that now

looks like there may already have been an issue raised if anyone wants to track it:

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=967427