Re: Server refused to start a shell/command (Buildroot - RPi)

2015-01-13 Thread Kevin Hill
After logging in successfully the following log messages are indicative of my problem: pty_allocate: openpty: No space left on device No pty was allocated, couldn't execute Exit (root): Exited normally. PuTTY gets the messages: Server refused to allocate pty Server refused to start a shell/comm

Re: Server refused to start a shell/command (Buildroot - RPi)

2015-01-13 Thread Kevin Hill
Peter, I think it is 2013.02 - the same one used for NOOBS. So I guess it is also quite old, but I didn't want to upgrade and break the rest of the system. I'm still taking baby steps... If I can't get this version working, I'll consider upgrading to buildroot 2014.11 Thanks for the info. K

Re: Server refused to start a shell/command (Buildroot - RPi)

2015-01-13 Thread Peter Korsgaard
> "dropbear@procountsoftware" == dropbear@procountsoftware co uk > writes: > I have a minimalistic buildroot system for the Raspberry Pi and would like > to add a dropbear ssh server to it that is started and is available from > boot, but for now I'm just trying to enable it manually

Re: Server refused to start a shell/command (Buildroot - RPi)

2015-01-13 Thread Matt Johnston
Hi, If you run “dropbear -F -E” (kill the existing server process first) then it will run in the foreground and print logging. That should suggest what’s going wrong. Alternatively it might already be logging to somewhere in /var/log depending if syslog is running. Cheers, Matt > On Tue 13/1/

Server refused to start a shell/command (Buildroot - RPi)

2015-01-13 Thread dropb...@procountsoftware.co.uk
I have a minimalistic buildroot system for the Raspberry Pi and would like to add a dropbear ssh server to it that is started and is available from boot, but for now I'm just trying to enable it manually and I'm having a few problems. I enabled dropbear within 'make menuconfig' and rebuilt buildro