=== JanC is now known as Guest4059 [18:51] hello, I just installed and fully updated Kubuntu 17.10 alpha 2 and it's not connecting to my wifi using my TP-Link TL-WN821N even though I turned off random MAC in NetworkManager.conf, any idea what could be going wrong? [18:52] It sees all the networks just fine but when I try to connect to mine it says "Configuring Interface" for a bit and then just stops === PaulW2U_ is now known as PaulW2U [18:55] ethana2: Support for Kubuntu is available in #kubuntu :) [18:57] tsimonq2: acheronuk from #kubuntu sent me here [18:58] I'll lurk both channels for a while [18:59] yes, I was covering both bases a sounds like an underlying network-manager issue [19:00] acheronuk: ack [19:53] I reconfigured WPA supplicant to log, and then reproduced the issue, and it didn't log anything... and I moved /var/log/syslog to /var/log/syslog.old and restarted rsyslogd and it's not making a new /var/log/syslog file... [19:54] tested 'logger' command directly from the CLI... nothing in /var/log... guess it's time to review my complete rsyslogd config [20:39] ok, /etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf has *.* going to /var/log/syslog and I restarted rsyslog and reloading it isn't a valid action for the service... maybe it's just queuing up large amounts of log entries before writing to disk as a power saving measure? But I have my / on an SSD so I'd prefer it write them whenever it's got a block worth [20:40] Did I confuse rsyslog? I do this on RHEL all the time [23:53] I found that the way I broke my syslog was touching a file with the wrong permissions for syslog to write to.. I got out of wpa supplicant that authentication was timing out, and people on stackexchange say the n/ac functionality may just need disabled so I've modified my /etc/modprobe.d/iwlwifi.conf file accordingly and if that doesn't work I'll revert the change [23:58] Well, that didn't work, resuming investigation