Re: [zones-discuss] ssh hangs and terminals
On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 18:34 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: I've just installed a basic zone on a current dev build of OS, I'm not a bigtime zones user but I thought I'd play around with the feature some more. Firstly, and this is a fairly basic thing but something I've always had problems with: No matter what terminal setting I choose when I first configure the zone, terminal applications such as Vim don't display normally. When zlogin'd to a zone, Vim will display in a fixed size and displays such oddies as only changing the last line when scrolling. I've had many problems with Vim and terminal emulations over the years but I've never managed to solve this one. To combat the Vim problem, I thought that it might work better when ssh'ing in from a working machine (the global zone). Unfortunately, after creating a user and home directory, ssh'ing in just hangs after the motd. If I force the command from ssh (ssh m...@xxx /bin/bash) I can type and run commands but I don't get a prompt. After some googling around I tried adding the -t option to ssh but that just hangs as well (totally locks up the terminal, have to kill manually). I'm probably wrong but I believe all this could be related however its above me so I thought I'd ask the experts. You may be hitting the issue with /dev/ptmx http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=12380 The workaround is to run chmod 666 /dev/ptmx as root. -M ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [zones-discuss] ssh hangs and terminals
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 07:44:41PM +0200, Mark Phalan wrote: On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 18:34 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: I've just installed a basic zone on a current dev build of OS, I'm not a bigtime zones user but I thought I'd play around with the feature some more. Firstly, and this is a fairly basic thing but something I've always had problems with: No matter what terminal setting I choose when I first configure the zone, terminal applications such as Vim don't display normally. When zlogin'd to a zone, Vim will display in a fixed size and displays such oddies as only changing the last line when scrolling. I've had many problems with Vim and terminal emulations over the years but I've never managed to solve this one. To combat the Vim problem, I thought that it might work better when ssh'ing in from a working machine (the global zone). Unfortunately, after creating a user and home directory, ssh'ing in just hangs after the motd. If I force the command from ssh (ssh m...@xxx /bin/bash) I can type and run commands but I don't get a prompt. After some googling around I tried adding the -t option to ssh but that just hangs as well (totally locks up the terminal, have to kill manually). I'm probably wrong but I believe all this could be related however its above me so I thought I'd ask the experts. You may be hitting the issue with /dev/ptmx http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=12380 The workaround is to run chmod 666 /dev/ptmx as root. -M Thats lovely, thanks. I can now ssh in perfectly and as a side effect, Vim now seems to work normally. Thanks Matt ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [zones-discuss] ssh hangs and terminals
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 06:34:58PM +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: Firstly, and this is a fairly basic thing but something I've always had problems with: No matter what terminal setting I choose when I first configure the zone, terminal applications such as Vim don't display normally. When zlogin'd to a zone, Vim will display in a fixed size and displays such oddies as only changing the last line when scrolling. zlogin has had a number of bugs filed against it. I'm not sure what its state is, but even without those bugs I'd recommend ssh over zlogin except when you want access to the zone's console. I've had many problems with Vim and terminal emulations over the years but I've never managed to solve this one. I've never had problems with VIM. To combat the Vim problem, I thought that it might work better when ssh'ing in from a working machine (the global zone). Unfortunately, after creating a user and home directory, ssh'ing in just hangs after the motd. If I force the command from ssh (ssh m...@xxx /bin/bash) I can type and run commands but I don't get a prompt. You're missing -t. After some googling around I tried adding the -t option to ssh but that just hangs as well (totally locks up the terminal, have to kill manually). Can you tell us more about what's going on in the client side? Nico -- ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
