Tobias Unsleber writes: > Hi Andreas, > > after checking Holger's advice you may test this too: > > a) Check the system/auth log files of the fai-server regarding any > ssh-authentication issues(e. g. authorizedkeys file world writable....) > > b) Check to ssh from the installed client (When the client machine waiting > is waiting for <Return> to reboot) to the faiserver using the fai LOGUSER > > c) check the local fai-logs at the waiting client (/var/log/fai I think)
Simple solution: For whatever reasons the fai account on the faiserver was not owned by user LOGUSER but instead by root (althought the ~LOGUSER/.ssh directory was correctly owned by LOGUSER). Of course this leads to permission issues when trying to remotely fai-chboot on or to scp files to the faiserver. By chown'ing the home directory to LOGUSER everything now works fine: root@faiserver:~# ls -ld ~fai drwxr-xr-x 4 fai root 4096 Aug 24 14:35 /var/log/fai This happened with version: root@faiserver:~# apt-cache showpkg fai-server Package: fai-server Versions: 3.4.8ubuntu5 (/var/lib/apt/lists/de.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty_universe_binary-amd64_Packages) (/var/lib/dpkg/status) Thanks for your hints and best wishes Andreas