Beta 3.201 issue, logread shows many CTRL-EVENT-BEACON-LOSS

eric · 2021-02-15T18:42:06.394Z

I have been trying out the 3.201 beta for the past several days on a GL-AR300M16. From time to time when I run logread I see a huge number of lines reading:

Mon Feb 15 09:42:28 2021 daemon.notice wpa_supplicant[2543]: wlan-sta: CTRL-EVENT-BEACON-LOSS

They seem to come out of the blue. I cannot figure out what is triggering them. Here is the output from today, as you can see, there was no other reported issue before they started:

Mon Feb 15 05:25:18 2021 daemon.notice netifd: wwan (2647): udhcpc: sending renew to 192.168.xx.x
Mon Feb 15 05:25:18 2021 daemon.notice netifd: wwan (2647): udhcpc: lease of 192.168.xx.x obtained, lease time 43200
Mon Feb 15 08:20:38 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2443]: DHCPREQUEST(br-lan) 192.168.xx.x xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
Mon Feb 15 08:20:38 2021 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2443]: DHCPACK(br-lan) 192.168.xx.x   xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
Mon Feb 15 09:42:28 2021 daemon.notice wpa_supplicant[2543]: wlan-sta: CTRL-EVENT-BEACON-LOSS
Mon Feb 15 09:42:29 2021 daemon.notice wpa_supplicant[2543]: wlan-sta: CTRL-EVENT-BEACON-LOSS
Mon Feb 15 09:42:30 2021 daemon.notice wpa_supplicant[2543]: wlan-sta: CTRL-EVENT-BEACON-LOSS
Mon Feb 15 09:42:31 2021 daemon.notice wpa_supplicant[2543]: wlan-sta: CTRL-EVENT-BEACON-LOSS
Mon Feb 15 09:42:32 2021 daemon.notice wpa_supplicant[2543]: wlan-sta: CTRL-EVENT-BEACON-LOSS
Mon Feb 15 09:42:34 2021 daemon.notice wpa_supplicant[2543]: wlan-sta: CTRL-EVENT-BEACON-LOSS
Mon Feb 15 09:42:37 2021 daemon.notice wpa_supplicant[2543]: wlan-sta: CTRL-EVENT-BEACON-LOSS
Mon Feb 15 09:42:38 2021 daemon.notice wpa_supplicant[2543]: wlan-sta: CTRL-EVENT-BEACON-LOSS
Mon Feb 15 09:42:39 2021 daemon.notice wpa_supplicant[2543]: wlan-sta: CTRL-EVENT-BEACON-LOSS
Mon Feb 15 09:42:40 2021 daemon.notice wpa_supplicant[2543]: wlan-sta: CTRL-EVENT-BEACON-LOSS
Mon Feb 15 09:42:41 2021 daemon.notice wpa_supplicant[2543]: wlan-sta: CTRL-EVENT-BEACON-LOSS
Mon Feb 15 09:42:42 2021 daemon.notice wpa_supplicant[2543]: wlan-sta: CTRL-EVENT-BEACON-LOSS

… MANY MANY more lines!

There are several reports on the OpenWrt forum of a similar problem being reported from users of the 19.07 code, on different hardware. Here is one of the reports:

OpenWrt Forum – 3 Jan 21

CTRL-EVENT-BEACON-LOSS issue

I noticing the frequent CTRL-EVENT-BEACON-LOSS for the system log. and I'm using OpenWrt 19.07.2, r10947-65030d81f3 and my wifi configuration as below: config wifi-device 'radio0' option type 'mac80211' option hwmode '11g' option path...

Searching the OpenWrt forum will show other users seeing the same issue.

There are times this message fully fills my log file! I down loaded the beta firmware from:
https://dl.gl-inet.com/firmware/snapshots/3.201_beta1/ar300m16/

Hopefully this issue can be fixed before you release the 3.201 firmware.

alzhao · 2021-02-17T06:41:16.171Z

I filed a bug internally for this.

mnasdf · 2021-02-17T19:32:42.129Z

Please also rebase to use OpenWRT 19.07.6.

There is a critical dnsmasq fix included for .6