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Date:      Mon, 1 Apr 2002 12:35:52 +0200 (SAT)
From:      John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>
To:        cjclark@alum.mit.edu
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: misc/36368: sshd error:  session_close_by_channel: kill xxxxxx: No such process
Message-ID:  <200204011035.g31AZqR51144@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <20020401022453.P99214@blossom.cjclark.org> from "Crist J. Clark" at "Apr 1, 2002 02:24:53 am"

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> On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 10:31:01AM +0200, John Hay wrote:
> > > On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 09:20:04AM -0800, Henrik Larsson wrote:
> > > > The following reply was made to PR misc/36368; it has been noted by GNATS.
> > > > 
> > > > From: Henrik Larsson <freebsd@spambox.dk>
> > > > To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, freebsd@spambox.dk
> > > > Cc:  
> > > > Subject: Re: misc/36368: sshd error:  session_close_by_channel: kill
> > > >   xxxxxx: No such process
> > > > Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 19:19:57 +0200
> > > > 
> > > >   > A little more detail on how to reproduce this? I can't.
> > > >  
> > > >  It is very simple.
> > > >  
> > > >  Login with sftp then logout.
> > > >  
> > > >  This produce the message in my message log.
> > > 
> > > OK, on one machine I do,
> > > 
> > >   $ sftp buttercup
> > >   Connecting to buttercup...
> > >   sftp> ls
> > >   drwxr-xr-x    3 cjc      cjc           512 Mar 19 03:22 .
> > >   drwxr-xr-x    3 root     wheel         512 Aug 29  2001 ..
> > >   -rw-r--r--    1 cjc      cjc          1576 Aug 29  2001 .cshrc
> > ...
> > >   -rw-r--r--    1 cjc      cjc           630 Mar 19 03:22 setupsetilog.sh
> > >   sftp> exit
> > >   $
> > > 
> > > And on the server I logged into, buttercup,
> > > 
> > >   $ grep sshd /var/log/messages
> > >   $ grep sshd /var/log/authlog | tail -2
> > >   Apr  1 00:01:26 <auth.info> buttercup sshd[20796]: Accepted publickey for cjc from 192.168.64.60 port 3606 ssh2
> > >   Apr  1 00:01:26 <auth.info> buttercup sshd[20796]: subsystem request for sftp
> > > 
> > > No errors.
> > 
> > You are lucky. I think it also have a little to do with timing. I had the
> > problem when using bitkeeper over ssh too. After first blaming bitkeeper,
> > they determined that it was openssh 2.9. I upgraded all my machines that
> > use bitkeeper to openssh 3.x and the problems went away. Now if you look
> > in the release notes for bitkeeper, you will see this:
> > 
> > ###################################################################
> > OpenSSH version 2.9 has a bug which can cause lost EOF errors when used as
> > a BitKeeper transport, especially over slow links.  We've confirmed that 
> > the problem has been fixed as of version 2.9.9; get an update at 
> > http://www.openssh.com/portable.html
> > ###################################################################
> 
> There's not a lot we can do about this possible bug unless we have
> reasonably reliable way to reproduce it.

We don't need to waste our time with it. It has been fixed in openssh 3.x
long ago. As soon as openssh 3.1 is MFCed, the bug will be fixed. :-)

John
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John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org

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