Authorization supplicant timed out error

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I get this error a few times a day : “Authorization supplicant timed out”. When it happens, the wifi gets disconnected for a few seconds and then reconnects. Any help is appreciated.
Here’s some relevant info:

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System:
  Kernel: 5.14.0-0-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.14-x86_64 
  root=UUID=fe64fafd-1c2a-4b55-846f-c264196ff166 rw nomce "acpi_osi=Windows 
  2018" quiet resume=UUID=4517ac81-4ac6-42a0-8e7a-a5870b5f98df 
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.22.5 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM 
  Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Pavilion Laptop 14-bf1xx 
  v: Type1ProductConfigId serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: HP model: 83CE v: 59.38 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: F.31 
  date: 10/30/2017 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 40.5 Wh (95.7%) condition: 42.3/42.3 Wh (100.0%) 
  volts: 13.2 min: 11.6 model: Hewlett-Packard PABAS0241231 type: Li-ion 
  serial: <filter> status: Charging 
CPU:
  Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-8550U bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Kaby Lake note: check family: 6 model-id: 8E (142) stepping: A (10) 
  microcode: EA cache: L2: 8 MiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 bogomips: 32012 
  Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 400/1800 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 
  4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX unsupported 
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion 
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
  Type: spec_store_bypass 
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, 
  IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 620 vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 
  v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:5917 class-ID: 0300 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GM108M [GeForce 940MX] vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: nvidia v: 470.63.01 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 01:00.0 
  chip-ID: 10de:134d class-ID: 0302 
  Device-3: Chicony HP Wide Vision HD Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo 
  bus-ID: 1-5:4 chip-ID: 04f2:b5d6 class-ID: 0e02 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: 
  loaded: modesetting,nvidia display-ID: :0 screens: 1 
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 115 s-size: 424x238mm (16.7x9.4") 
  s-diag: 486mm (19.1") 
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 158 size: 309x173mm (12.2x6.8") 
  diag: 354mm (13.9") 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.1 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl bus-ID: 00:1f.3 
  chip-ID: 8086:9d71 class-ID: 0403 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.14.0-0-MANJARO running: yes 
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no 
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: no 
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.34 running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8168 v: 8.049.02-NAPI modules: r8169 
  port: 3000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200 
  IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Intel Wireless 7265 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: 3000 
  bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:095a class-ID: 0280 
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter> 
  IF-ID-1: br-ab1ab553cc42 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: unknown 
  mac: <filter> 
  IF-ID-2: docker0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  IF-ID-3: veth045cfdd state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
  IF-ID-4: veth7a32a3c state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
  IF-ID-5: veth8534e91 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
  IF-ID-6: wgpia0 state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: N/A 
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 
  bus-ID: 1-4:3 chip-ID: 8087:0a2a class-ID: e001 
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 4 state: up address: see --recommends 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.03 TiB used: 666.14 GiB (63.4%) 
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM035-1RK172 
  size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: RSM7 scheme: GPT 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: SanDisk model: SD8SN8U-128G-1006 
  size: 119.24 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 0006 scheme: GPT 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 50 GiB size: 48.72 GiB (97.43%) used: 33.25 GiB (68.3%) 
  fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb5 maj-min: 8:21 
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 277 MiB size: 276.4 MiB (99.80%) 
  used: 280 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 56.97 GiB size: 55.83 GiB (97.99%) 
  used: 34.78 GiB (62.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb2 maj-min: 8:18 
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 1 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 12 GiB used: 1.5 GiB (12.5%) priority: -2 
  dev: /dev/sdb3 maj-min: 8:19 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 38.0 C mobo: 29.8 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 334 Uptime: 19h 35m wakeups: 8 Memory: 7.69 GiB 
  used: 4.03 GiB (52.4%) Init: systemd v: 248 tool: systemctl Compilers: 
  gcc: 11.1.0 clang: 12.0.1 Packages: 1995 pacman: 1988 lib: 439 flatpak: 1 
  snap: 6 Shell: fish v: 3.3.1 running-in: tmux: inxi: 3.3.06

journalctl -xe -n 1000

tail -n +1 /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/*

==> /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/10-default-wifi-powersave-on.conf <==
[connection]
wifi.powersave = 2

==> /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/20-connectivity.conf <==
[connectivity]
uri=1.1.1.1

==> /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/wgpia.conf <==
[keyfile]
unmanaged-devices=interface-name:wgpia*

EDIT: It’s worth pointing out that this doesn’t happen in all networks. For example, my university network works just fine. At first I suspected that it was a new router that I bought. But I’ve replaced that router with a different one, the problem still persists. Also, this only started happening after I moved from India to US, so it might be worth considering if it’s some standards or locale issue.

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Have you tried an LTS kernel yet?

:thinking:

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Yep, tried it on 5.10 and 5.4
Same error.

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Disable IPV6 on the router and try again.

:crossed_fingers:

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It’s already off. I even set IPv6 to Ignore in Manjaro settings. But to no avail.

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Does this also happen when you down the (I suppose) bridge?

And what are these?

:thinking:

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wgpia0 is the interface set up by PIA VPN. IDK about the others. Also, I’m not sure what you mean by “bridge”.

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If you don’t know your own configuration, I’m sorry, but then I cannot help you any further, but from the naming convention I guessed you have:

and I don’t know where those come from and they’re “up” so that’s why I was asking.

Did this problem start after you installed

:question:

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PIA VPN has been there for a while. It didn’t start the problem.

Is there a way to find out where those come from, so that I can disable them if unneeded? (It’s a bit hard to remember how I set something up a year ago.) Is there a way to kind of reset everything related to networking?

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You might be on to something, check this out:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Network_configuration/Wireless#Respecting_the_regulatory_domain

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This didn’t work either. I’m still facing the issue once/twice a day. Weirdly, the issue doesn’t happen for a few hours, and then happens repeatedly 4-5 times or more. Most of the time, systemctl restart NetworkManager fixes it temporarily, but not always.

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The latest update (17/09) seems to have fixed the issue somehow.

EDIT : Spoke too soon. It’s back. But the frequency is somewhat lower than before.

EDIT2 : I had set my SSIDs to be hidden (stupid, I know). After setting them up as visiblen, the problem no longer happens. Sure, this shouldn’t have happened even then since my Android devices worked just fine, not to mention that I had hidden SSIDs back in India as well. But hey, at least it’s fixed now.

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