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On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 01:56:06PM -0500, Joshua Murphy wrote: |
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> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Florian Philipp |
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> <lists@f_philipp.fastmail.net> wrote: |
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> > Alan Mackenzie schrieb: |
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> >> Hi, folks! |
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> >> I'm trying to get sshd working on an embryonic Gentoo installation on my |
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> >> laptop. The reason is that I want to ssh from my nice comfy desktop |
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> >> system into this laptop to do the rest of the installation stuff. |
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> >> The installation kernel with which I'm having problems is: |
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> >> Linux livecd 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 #1 SMP Tue Nov 3 11:40:51 UTC 2009. |
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> >> Having started sshd on my laptop, when I do |
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> >> ssh -lroot 192.168.2.101 |
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> >> from my desktop, I get prompted for my ssh key's pass phrase, which I |
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> >> enter. Thereafter, nothing happens, and it continues to happen for a |
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> >> long, long time. |
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> > [...] |
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> >> Clearly openpty (a C function) is failing to find some file. Don't you |
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> >> just love error messages like "No such file or directory" which forget |
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> >> to identify the filename? I'm guessing that the file it can't find is |
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> >> the device file for the new pty. |
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> >> Is there anything I can do to get sshd working from this kernel (and if |
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> >> so, what?), or is there something fundamentally wrong with the kernel |
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> >> configuration? |
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> > Where did you start sshd, in the chrooted environment or on the live cd |
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> > itself? |
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> My first thought as well... I'd guess, just at a glance, that sshd was |
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> started in the chroot, and that /mnt/gentoo/dev/ is bind mounted |
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> properly, but /mnt/gentoo/dev/pts/ isn't. |
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As said, I fixed the problem by mounting /dev with --rbind. This |
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misunderstanding cost me, perhaps, 10 hours of my time. |
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I then reported my problem to the bug tracker, suggesting that the manual |
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should be amended to say "--rbind" here. |
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I really wish I hadn't bothered. My attempt to contribute was brusquely |
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brushed aside by somebody who didn't even bother to thank me for my |
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trouble (I always thank people reporting bugs to my project), said that |
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he "couldn't reproduce [my] error", and asserted that sshd wasn't meant |
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to work in the chrooted environment (why on Earth not?), implying it was |
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my stupid fault for not following the manual rigidly and droidwise. To |
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cap it all, he patronisingly referred me to the appropriate sections of |
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the fine manual (that's after my having reported how I'd already fixed |
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the problem for me). |
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See https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=296073 |
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Seems to me, reporting problems to Gentoo is a waste of time, at least |
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documentation problems. |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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