This was killing hostapd, but not re-initializing any of the control socket information so any use of hostapd.wait_for_event after hostapd.ungraceful_restart would cause an exception. --- autotests/util/hostapd.py | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/autotests/util/hostapd.py b/autotests/util/hostapd.py index 49047f38..c3a4a0d0 100644 --- a/autotests/util/hostapd.py +++ b/autotests/util/hostapd.py @@ -193,6 +193,8 @@ class HostapdCLI: ''' Ungracefully kill and restart hostapd ''' + self.ctrl_sock.close() + intf = hostapd_map[self.ifname] os.system('killall -9 hostapd') os.system('ifconfig %s down' % intf.name) @@ -203,6 +205,9 @@ class HostapdCLI: # set flag so hostapd can be killed after the test self._hostapd_restarted = True + # New hostapd process, so re-init + self.__init__(intf) + def req_beacon(self, addr, request): ''' Send a RRM Beacon request -- 2.21.1