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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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>> |
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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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>> |
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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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>> |
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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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> [...] |
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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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>> |
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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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Poison [BLX] |
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Joshua M. Murphy |
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