Bug#458154: Processed: Re: Bug#458154: network-console: long time-out time during install

2008-01-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 12:12:21AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: However, the fact remains that _we_ have so far not been able to reproduce the issue. As I've said earlier, I've had an SSH install sitting unused for over 4 hours without the connection being lost, with basically default SSH

Processed: Re: Bug#458154: network-console: long time-out time during install

2008-01-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 458154 installation-guide Bug#458154: [NSLU2] ssh connection should not time out Bug reassigned from package `network-console' to `installation-guide'. retitle 458154 Document how to avoid dropped network-console connections Bug#458154:

Bug#458154: network-console: long time-out time during install

2008-01-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 02:58:11PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: reassign 458154 installation-guide retitle 458154 Document how to avoid dropped network-console connections thanks On Monday 07 January 2008, Colin Watson wrote: I agree that documenting this is the best approach. Thanks for the

Bug#458154: network-console: long time-out time during install

2008-01-07 Thread Otavio Salvador
Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: reassign 458154 installation-guide retitle 458154 Document how to avoid dropped network-console connections thanks On Monday 07 January 2008, Colin Watson wrote: I agree that documenting this is the best approach. Thanks for the info Colin. Would the

Bug#458154: network-console: long time-out time during install

2008-01-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 02:58:11PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 07 January 2008, Colin Watson wrote: I agree that documenting this is the best approach. Thanks for the info Colin. Would the following text be OK for the installation guide (to be added as a note in the

Bug#458154: network-console: long time-out time during install

2008-01-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 07 January 2008, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Would the following text be OK for the installation guide (to be added as a note in the network-console section)? snip The commandssh/command server in the installer uses a default configuration that does not have a timeout set.

Bug#458154: Processed: Re: Bug#458154: network-console: long time-out time during install

2008-01-07 Thread Del Merritt
Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 12:12:21AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: However, the fact remains that _we_ have so far not been able to reproduce the issue. As I've said earlier, I've had an SSH install sitting unused for over 4 hours without the connection being lost, with

Bug#458154: network-console: long time-out time during install

2008-01-07 Thread Otavio Salvador
Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The commandssh/command server in the installer uses a default configuration that does not send keep-alive packets. In principle, a connection to the system being installed should be kept open indefinitely. However, in some situations mdash; depending on

Bug#458154: Processed: Re: Bug#458154: network-console: long time-out time during install

2008-01-07 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: So the question still is _why_ ssh drops the connection in your case. Some crappy routers and firewalls do this to TCP connections that pass through them. Also, the solution you propose is on the _client_ side, so is not something we can fix in the installer. The only thing

Processed: Re: Bug#458154: network-console: long time-out time during install

2008-01-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: tags 458154 pending Bug#458154: Document how to avoid dropped network-console connections Tags were: moreinfo Tags added: pending thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator

Bug#458154: network-console: long time-out time during install

2008-01-07 Thread Frans Pop
tags 458154 pending thanks On Monday 07 January 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: I think that the text talking about NAT could be used in place of the depending on your local network setup like one common case where this may happen is when there is some form of Network Address Translation (NAT)

Bug#458154: Processed: Re: Bug#458154: network-console: long time-out time during install

2008-01-06 Thread Frans Pop
retitle 458154 [NSLU2] ssh connection should not time out tags 458154 + moreinfo thanks On Friday 04 January 2008, G. Del Merritt wrote: Please note: I was not able to recover gracefully from the timeout. That is expected. As the installation process itself runs almost entirely in memory and

Processed: Re: Processed: Re: Bug#458154: network-console: long time-out time during install

2008-01-06 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: retitle 458154 [NSLU2] ssh connection should not time out Bug#458154: network-console: long time-out time during install Changed Bug title to `[NSLU2] ssh connection should not time out' from `network-console: long time-out time during install'. tags

Re: Processed: Re: Bug#458154: network-console: long time-out time during install

2008-01-04 Thread G. Del Merritt
appropriate: during an install, the ssh connection should not time out. tags 458154 -unreproducible Bug#458154: network-console: long time-out time during install Tags were: unreproducible Tags removed: unreproducible No, this was completely reproducible. It happened to me - identically

Bug#458154: network-console: long time-out time during install

2008-01-02 Thread Geert Stappers
#Op 02-01-2008 om 02:17 schreef Rick Thomas: # # Maybe this could be set for installations? It's not a good idea to set it # for the installed config file, for just the kind of security reasons Del # alludes to above. But it could save some long-running installations on # difficult to access

Processed: Re: Bug#458154: network-console: long time-out time during install

2008-01-02 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
time-out time during install Bug#458154: [NSLU2] ssh connection should not time out Changed Bug title to `network-console: long time-out time during install' from `[NSLU2] ssh connection should not time out'. tags 458154 -unreproducible Bug#458154: network-console: long time-out time during install