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Date:      Sun, 17 Sep 2000 19:06:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jason Evans <jasone@magnesium.net>
Cc:        Konstantin Chuguev <Konstantin.Chuguev@dante.org.uk>, Udo Schweigert <ust@cert.siemens.de>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ssh and scp fail connecting to a root account
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009171905430.22945-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000917190423.A28269@canonware.com>

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On 17 Sep 2000, Jason Evans wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 03:40:12PM +0100, Konstantin Chuguev wrote:
> > Udo Schweigert wrote:
> > 
> > > after a fresh build of -current openssh does not work if connecting to the
> > > root-user. For example (tested from a -stable machine, but the same from
> > > 4.1-RELEASE):
> > 
> > Yes, I've been seeing the same thing since the checkout of the SMPng stuff...
> > No idea why it's happening.
> 
> I've seen similar things intermittently over the past 10 days, and
> specifically the same problem for the past three days or so.  I'm pretty
> sure that the problems have been associated with the random device rather
> than the SMP work specifically.

Well, the crash is apparently due to malloc flags - remove the
/etc/malloc.conf link and it may work better. I've only seen this once,
and when I tried to run sshd under gdb it went away, and now I can't
reproduce it again. :-(

Kris

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