On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Florian Philipp <li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net> wrote: > Alan Mackenzie schrieb: >> Hi, folks! >> >> I'm trying to get sshd working on an embryonic Gentoo installation on my >> laptop. The reason is that I want to ssh from my nice comfy desktop >> system into this laptop to do the rest of the installation stuff. >> >> The installation kernel with which I'm having problems is: >> Linux livecd 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 #1 SMP Tue Nov 3 11:40:51 UTC 2009. >> >> Having started sshd on my laptop, when I do >> >> ssh -lroot 192.168.2.101 >> >> from my desktop, I get prompted for my ssh key's pass phrase, which I >> enter. Thereafter, nothing happens, and it continues to happen for a >> long, long time. >> > [...] >> >> Clearly openpty (a C function) is failing to find some file. Don't you >> just love error messages like "No such file or directory" which forget >> to identify the filename? I'm guessing that the file it can't find is >> the device file for the new pty. >> >> Is there anything I can do to get sshd working from this kernel (and if >> so, what?), or is there something fundamentally wrong with the kernel >> configuration? >> > > Where did you start sshd, in the chrooted environment or on the live cd > itself?
My first thought as well... I'd guess, just at a glance, that sshd was started in the chroot, and that /mnt/gentoo/dev/ is bind mounted properly, but /mnt/gentoo/dev/pts/ isn't. -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
