Bug#504709: Xen console problems

[Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com>]

>>>>> Baruch Even <baruch@debian.org> writes:

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 > If I try to connect with ssh (using NAT networking) I can connect and
 > after loop mounting and setting a root password I can even login but
 > I get an error that there is no tty and

	Did you mean the message like the following?

$ ssh root@XXX 
stdin: is not a tty
                   Connection to XXX closed.
$ 

	If so, I could confirm the bug.

 > I cannot do much beyond that. I can however connect with ssh to
 > execute commands inside the machine such as ls / and things seem to
 > work and booted.

	Apparently, /dev/pts/ somehow doesn't get created in the domU.
	As a workaround, the following seems to work:

dom0 $ ssh -v root@XXX mkdir /dev/pts \&\& invoke-rc.d mountdevsubfs.sh start 

	From then on, SSH sessions should become available (until the
	next domU shutdown):

dom0 $ ssh root@XXX 
XXX # 

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