Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

[Joshua Murphy <poisonbl@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Florian Philipp
<lists@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.

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Joshua M. Murphy