From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 4 6:20:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from klima.physik.uni-mainz.de (klima.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.180.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0DA137B403 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 06:20:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from klima.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE (klima.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.180.162]) by klima.physik.uni-mainz.de (8.11.6/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f94DK1d50501; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 15:20:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de) Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 15:20:00 +0200 (CEST) From: "Hartmann, O." To: setantae Cc: Subject: Re: SSH problems in 4.4-STABLE In-Reply-To: <20011004141638.A6438@rhadamanth> Message-ID: <20011004151827.B48848-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, setantae wrote: We also run a UP box with a single AMD TBird at 850 MHz. This server is still and also under heavy load as the other SMP machines and it has a very similar configuration - and, especially, it is always on the same software level as the SMP machines. But this machine never have had any problems with ssh! Only our other both SMP machines suffer from this problem! :>On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 03:00:56PM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote: :>> On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Ceri wrote: :>> :>> :>On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 02:41:23PM +0200, Hartmann, O. said: :>> :>> Dear Sirs. :>> :>> Again, I have still massive problems with the recent ssh in FreeBSD :>> :>> 4.4-STABLE as cvsupdated two days ago. I reported this problem when :>> :>> we were on the way toward FBSD 4.4-RELEASE (4.4-RC). :>> :>> :>> :>> On SMP machines, sshd crashes when regenerating the host key after :>> :>> 3600 or 1800 seconds. The log error is: :>> :>> :>> :>> Oct 1 22:15:22 klima sshd[291]: Server listening on xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port 22. :>> :>> Oct 1 22:15:22 klima sshd[291]: fatal: rsa_generate_private_key: key generation :>> :>> failed. :>> :> :>> :>I also get this, also only on my SMP system :>> :>My workaround is to set up a cron entry to HUP sshd every 30 minutes. :> :>> Well, HUPing sshd has the result for me that sshd crashes also :>> some times. I feel better that someone has the same problem :>> (I regret this, but last time guys meant I saw white mice ...). :>> :>> Hope this problem gets fixed soon. Does anything has changed in the :>> /dev/random device? It seems that the RSA key could not be created :>> the right way ... :> :>I also occasionally get : :> :> sshd no RSA support in libssl and libcrypto. See ssl(8) :> :>But since this is also intermittent, I find it strange that the RSA support :>can be there on one boot, and not the other... :> :>Ceri :> :>-- :>keep a mild groove on :> -- MfG O. Hartmann ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de ---------------------------------------------------------------- IT-Administration des Institutes fuer Physik der Atmosphaere (IPA) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz Becherweg 21 55099 Mainz Tel: +496131/3924662 (Maschinenraum) Tel: +496131/3924144 FAX: +496131/3923532 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message