Bug#916843: installed system not usable
On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 01:56:39PM +0100, andrew glaeser wrote:
>Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> wrote:
>>
>> I've been bitten by this myself, so I recognise the symptoms.
>>
>> You've logged in and used "su" to switch to root. We've recently
>> switched to using the "su" provided by the util-linux source package
>> instead of the older one from shadow, and this is a consequence of
>> that change. To change environment properly, you need to use "su -"
>> instead.
>
>Well, I guess then it really is a minor issue only, I would have tried to fix
>the path-variable next, bit if you have another solution it is fine for me,
>even better, if you want.
>Does this have to go into the release-notes anyway?
Yes, it probably should. I'm not sure if it's there already, I need to
check.
>Other thing, that caught my attention was, that you obviously have to wait a
>few minutes upon reboot, until you can log in with SSH. Is this actually
>intended to be this way:
>
>> andrew@a68n:~$ ssh user@detst
>> ssh: connect to host detst port 22: Connection refused
>> andrew@a68n:~$ ssh user@detst
>> ssh: connect to host detst port 22: Connection refused
>> andrew@a68n:~$ ssh user@detst
>> ssh: connect to host detst port 22: Connection refused
>> andrew@a68n:~$ ssh user@detst
>> ssh: connect to host detst port 22: Connection refused
>> andrew@a68n:~$ ssh user@detst
>> ssh: connect to host detst port 22: Connection refused
>> andrew@a68n:~$ ssh user@detst
>> Linux detst 4.18.0-3-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.18.20-2 (2018-11-23) x86_64
That's a separate issue. *Maybe* a lack of entropy (see [1]), but it
could be other things too. Check your logs for related messages maybe?
[1] https://daniel-lange.com/archives/152-Openssh-taking-minutes-to-become-available,-booting-takes-half-an-hour-...-because-your-server-waits-for-a-few-bytes-of-randomness.html
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
"...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user'
as meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver." -- Daniel Pead
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