On 3/21/06, Hugo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been a happy user of fish(shell) for some time. I've recently > come across a rather tricky (for me at least) problem that involves > the fish shell and i'd like to warn others so they might save the many > hours i spent figuring this out. For clarity sake, this matter also > involves another "fish", specifically the KDE ioslave "fish://" used > to access remote filesystems over ssh. > > It seems that using Ubuntu Breezy (latest stable ubuntu) versions of > the various software packages involved, if you attempt to connect to > an ssh server with the KDE ioslave fish, and that ssh server is > running fish(shell) as the shell for the user you'll be connecting as, > you can't connect. It fails with a rather useless error message. > > For extra fun, using Ubuntu Hoary (previous ubuntu version, which i > had on another machine), it seems that yes you can connect with that > older version of KDE ioslave fish even if the ssh server is running > fish(shell) as shell for the user. > > After many many hours figuring this out (which started with an > unexplainable inability to connect with the kde ioslave fish), parsing > trough sshd syslog messages (useless), being fooled as to where the > problem is because Ubuntu Hoary could connect, to finally find the > problem on a piece of software with the same name... well lets just > say that the irony of the situation does not escape me.
I am glad you can see some of the humor in the situation. > > I am unsure of wether this is a fish(shell) bug or if it is simply the > KDE ioslave fish assuming something about the remote shell that fish > simply does not comply with. I'll try to reproduce this problem when I get home tonight. > > Thank you to the developers and good luck! > > Hugo > -- Axel ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
