reassign 546743 lsb-base affects 546743 openssh-server thanks On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 02:41:20PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > Package: openssh-server > Version: 1:5.1p1-5 > Severity: important > > The ssh init script fails to do anything usefull of echo fails with EIO > because of the set -e. Standard output is /dev/console during the > initial startup. > > /dev/console is a special device. It may generate EIO on writing if > no backend device is connected to it, aka while the console is > missconfigured or broken. Such a system will boot up normal but the sshd > will be missing, which may be needed to fix things.
OK, but /etc/init.d/ssh doesn't echo anything directly; it just uses the LSB init functions. I think they ought to be changed to explicitly discard errors from console writes as appropriate. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org