[20099] in Athena Bugs
Re: Problem Running SSH on Mandela-1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rocklyn E. Clarke)
Fri Jan 11 18:53:27 2002
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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 18:53:20 -0500
To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@mit.edu>
From: "Rocklyn E. Clarke" <rclarke@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@mit.edu, "Thomas, Oliver" <othomas@mit.edu>,
"Weiss, Jonathon" <jweiss@mit.edu>
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Hi Garry,
Thanks for getting back to me. Your instructions worked and I can
now happily ssh into my workstation. I am copying this email to the
other "interested parties" who initially helped me.
Here is the output you requested:
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mandela-1.mit.edu [3] [6:33pm]>date
Fri Jan 11 18:33:21 EST 2002
mandela-1.mit.edu [4] [6:33pm]>ls -l /dev/random
prw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 11 21:05 /dev/random
mandela-1.mit.edu [5] [6:33pm]>ls -l /usr/lib/sparcv9/libm.so.1
/usr/lib/sparcv9/libm.so.1: No such file or directory
mandela-1.mit.edu [6] [6:33pm]>
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Thanks,
Rocklyn
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At 3:56 PM -0500 1/11/02, Garry Zacheiss wrote:
> Hi Rocklyn,
>
> It looks like you updated your machine to 9.0 relatively
>recently. You were bit by a bug in the 8.4 -> 9.0 update process;
>it should be easy to fix, though.
>
> First, run the commands
>
> ls -l /dev/random
> ls -l /usr/lib/sparcv9/libm.so.1
>
>and save the output. I'll be interested in seeing it.
>
> Then, to fix the problem, you should just need to do the
>following (as root):
>
> mkdir /var/etc
>
>also, if the output of "ls -l /usr/lib/sparcv9/libm.so.1" indidcates
>that it's a symlink to a file in /os, you'll need to do this as well:
>
> rm -f /usr/lib/sparcv9/libm.so.1
> cp -p /os/usr/lib/sparcv9/libm.so.1 /usr/lib/sparcv9/
>
>You should then be able to start cryptorand, which should make sshd work
>again.
>
>Let us know if you have any trouble.
>
>Garry
