Hi Adam Once you connect to Windows XP using VI client, can you start Cygwin SSH service manually under Control Panel -> Services?
Thanks. On Aug 2, 2012, at 15:34 , "Hechler, Adam" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi again, > > So after getting the new sshd-config file this morning, I configured it and > all seemed good. I then attempted to capture my base image. The capture > itself completed successfully but then I got an error that the reload process > failed right after this: > > 2012-08-02 12:23:18|21124|124:124|reload|Windows.pm:post_load(583)|beginning > Windows post-load tasks on vmwg0-120-57 > > After numerous attempts (about 107) to connect to SSH it finally failed > reporting: > > 2012-08-02 > 12:38:35|21124|124:124|reload|Module.pm:code_loop_timeout(767)|waiting for > vmwg0-120-57 to respond to SSH, code did not return true after waiting 900 > seconds > > Since it didn’t finish the post-load tasks I was still able to login as root > to my Windows XP image using the VI Client console. I opened Cygwin and typed > ps –ef looking to see if sshd was running but it’s not. The only processes > running are ps, bash and mintty. Should I be able to see if sshd is running > using this method of checking. I know about ps -ef from very limited unix > interactions so I thought I’d try it. > > I know that in the past, when sshd didn’t start (before capturing into VCL) I > would have to open a cmd prompt and run the rebaseall but it looks like that > cmd file gets deleted during the capture? because it’s no longer in > C:\cygwin\home\root which is where it used to be. I was thinking I would just > try to run that again. > > Any clues? > > Thanks, > Adam > > > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Adam Hechler > Senior Analyst /PC Systems Administrator > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute > 275 Windsor Street > Hartford, CT 06120 USA > Ph: 860-548-2446 > Email: [email protected] > Web: http://www.ewp.rpi.edu > <image001.jpg> <image002.jpg> <image003.jpg> <image004.png> > -- Thank you, Dmitri Chebotarov Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers & Messaging 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5 Phone: (703) 993-6175 Fax: (703) 993-3404
