Hi, Florian, On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 05:59:00PM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > Alan Mackenzie schrieb:
> > 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? In the chrooted environment. When I start it directly in the live cd session, it seems to work just fine. When it works (from live cd), it creates a device file /dev/pts/0 in (presumably) the installation ram disk. When it doesn't work (from chrooted environment) it fails to create /dev/pts/0, even though /dev/pts exists inside the chrooted root filesystem. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
