Re: Processed: Re: Bug#458154: network-console: long time-out time during install

["G. Del Merritt" <del@lincoln.midcoast.com>]

Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
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> > #Op 02-01-2008 om 02:17 schreef Rick Thomas:
> > #>
> > #> Maybe this could be set for installations?  It's not a good idea to set it
> > #> for the installed config file, for just the kind of security reasons Del
> > #> alludes to above.  But it could save some long-running installations on
> > #> difficult to access (physically) machines.
> > #
> > # Because I assume it doesn't harm to extend the time-out.
> > #
> > severity 458154 wishlist
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> Bug#458154: [NSLU2] ssh connection should not time out
> Severity set to `wishlist' from `normal'
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Please note: I was not able to recover "gracefully" from the timeout.  
Instead, I had to restart the installation (three separate times!) after 
reformatting the root partition.  It is certainly possible I could have 
cleaned up a file or two with the installer console, but I didn't have 
the patience or the knowledge of the installer's internals to make that 
happen in a timely manner.

The embedded - or at least headless/no-console - nature of the NSLU2 
means that the only way to perform the install is via ssh (or to 
completely build the target boot disk from another system).  After a 
timeout, I would ssh back to "installer@myslug" and be given the option 
to pick up where I left off, but then I'd get told that there was an 
error.  Thus there are at least two bugs here: 1) the ssh timeout during 
the install, which in turn shows 2) an error recovery glitch in the 
installer.

> > retitle 458154 network-console: long time-out time during install
> >     
> Bug#458154: [NSLU2] ssh connection should not time out
> Changed Bug title to `network-console: long time-out time during install' from `[NSLU2] ssh connection should not time out'.
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Really?  I think the prior title was more appropriate: during an 
install, the ssh connection should not time out.


> > tags 458154 -unreproducible
> >     
> Bug#458154: network-console: long time-out time during install
> Tags were: unreproducible
> Tags removed: unreproducible
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No, this was completely reproducible.  It happened to me - identically - 
at least three times.  It only stopped being a problem when I added this 
to my .ssh/config on the host I was using to connect to my slug:

   ServerAliveInterval 2


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Thanks for all you do!

-Del