On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 01:32 +0100, Deim Ágoston wrote: > > this was pointless - outside of the great log file it created...the > > trace was only of the nxserver -restart and nothing beyond that so no > > useful information could be derived. I haven't a clue on which process > > it would be - I presume that it all starts with an ssh connection... > I find strace very useful, usually. It tells me lot of things. Try to look > over for ENOENT and EACCESS. ---- leaving no stone unturned... [root at srv1 etc]# grep ENOENT /tmp/logfile 15546 16:54:58 access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 15549 16:54:58 stat64("/usr/kerberos/sbin/dirname", 0xbfece320) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 15549 16:54:58 stat64("/usr/kerberos/bin/dirname", 0xbfece320) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 15549 16:54:58 stat64("/usr/local/sbin/dirname", 0xbfece320) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 15549 16:54:58 stat64("/usr/local/bin/dirname", 0xbfece320) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 15549 16:54:58 stat64("/sbin/dirname", 0xbfece320) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 15549 16:54:58 stat64("/bin/dirname", 0xbfece320) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 15549 16:54:58 stat64("/usr/sbin/dirname", 0xbfece320) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 15550 16:54:58 access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 15547 16:54:58 access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 15551 16:54:58 stat64("/usr/kerberos/sbin/hostname", 0xbfece930) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 15551 16:54:58 stat64("/usr/kerberos/bin/hostname", 0xbfece930) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 15551 16:54:58 stat64("/usr/local/sbin/hostname", 0xbfece930) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 15551 16:54:58 stat64("/usr/local/bin/hostname", 0xbfece930) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 15551 16:54:58 stat64("/sbin/hostname", 0xbfece930) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 15552 16:54:58 access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 15553 16:54:58 stat64("/usr/kerberos/sbin/uname", 0xbfece930) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 15553 16:54:58 stat64("/usr/kerberos/bin/uname", 0xbfece930) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 15553 16:54:58 stat64("/usr/local/sbin/uname", 0xbfece930) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 15553 16:54:58 stat64("/usr/local/bin/uname", 0xbfece930) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 15553 16:54:58 stat64("/sbin/uname", 0xbfece930) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 15554 16:54:59 access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 15546 16:54:59 stat64("/etc/nxserver/node.conf.d", 0xbfecee80) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 15546 16:54:59 stat64("/etc/nxserver/root.node.conf", 0xbfececf0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 15546 16:54:59 stat64("/usr/kerberos/sbin/mv", 0xbfece770) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 15546 16:54:59 stat64("/usr/kerberos/bin/mv", 0xbfece770) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 15546 16:54:59 stat64("/usr/local/sbin/mv", 0xbfece770) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 15546 16:54:59 stat64("/usr/local/bin/mv", 0xbfece770) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 15546 16:54:59 stat64("/sbin/mv", 0xbfece770) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 15555 16:54:59 access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 15555 16:54:59 stat64("/var/lib/nxserver/home/.ssh/authorized_keys2.disabled", 0xbfeab4d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 15555 16:54:59 lstat64("/var/lib/nxserver/home/.ssh/authorized_keys2.disabled", 0xbfeab3c0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 15546 16:54:59 stat64("/var/lib/nxserver/home/.ssh/authorized_keys2", 0xbfece5a0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 15556 16:54:59 access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 15556 16:54:59 stat64("/var/lib/nxserver/home/.ssh/authorized_keys2", 0xbfe2f4d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 15556 16:54:59 lstat64("/var/lib/nxserver/home/.ssh/authorized_keys2", 0xbfe2f3c0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) [root at srv1 etc]# grep EACCESS /tmp/logfile [root at srv1 etc]# I still don't see how this issue matters since this is the nxserver startup strace - it dies after the server starts up but no trace of attempt to login occurs ---- > > Another question: did you enabled the key authentication in sshd_conf? If > sshd didn't accept the connection with keys that could be a problem. Just > an idea... ---- yes but I think by default, PubkeyAuthentication is on as I have been doing it with another machine since the day I set up the server. For S & G's though, I did remove the comment and restarted sshd service... # grep Pubkey /etc/ssh/sshd_config PubkeyAuthentication yes I don't think I am getting anywhere on this but thought I would fill in the replies just in case. Thanks Craig