Problem with dropbear and uClibc / busybox

Brent Davidson brentd at tlab.net
Mon Feb 28 09:12:53 WST 2005


Well, I'm not exactly sure how I fixed the problem, as I did the classic 
"try two things at once", but I turned on support for legacy pty's in my 
kernel and also recompiled dropobear as a static binary and it is now 
working.

Thanks for the help.

-Brent

Matt Johnston wrote:

>On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 02:54:34PM -0600, Brent Davidson wrote:
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>>Well, I mamanged to get the hang up problem fixed, but now I'm having 
>>another issue...  Once I log in, I get the following in the log:
>>
>>[326] Jan 03 20:39:46 pty_allocate: openpty: No such file or directory
>>[326] Jan 03 20:39:46 no pty was allocated, couldn't execute
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>>(Yes, I know the date is wrong, I haven't set that yet.)
>>
>>What am I missing now?
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>Perhaps devpts needs to be mounted on /dev/pts ? It might
>depend on what options you have set in your uClibc config.
>
>If you can run strace on Dropbear, that'll be a quick way to
>see what's missing.
>
>Matt
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