Package: monkeysphere Version: 0.36-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
I had a hard time debugging a disturbing and seemingly intermittent failure while using the monkeysphere . When trying to connect to a small subset of the servers I usually connect to, I immediately got a connection refused error from ssh, before I even started connecting to the remote server. When disabling the monkeysphere-proxycommand in ~/.ssh/config I was able to successfully connect to these hosts. After much hand-wringing and debugging, I tried calling: MONKEYSPHERE_LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG /usr/bin/monkeysphere ssh-proxycommand <host> With working hosts, we get an SSH welcome message. With the non-working hosts I received no feedback and exit code 1. I finally tracked it down: ssh-keygen -F <host> -f /home/jamie/.ssh/known_hosts Which generated a useful error about my known_hosts file having a line that was too long (somehow I had inserted garbage into my known_hosts file which prevent ssh-keygen from working properly). So, the small subset of hosts that were failing were the ones that weren't in my OpenPGP keyring (which makes sense ... mostly this was affecting my access to the non-public virtual guests on my laptop.). I *think* the proper fixes are: * Check the error code when calling ssh-keygen and return a reasonable error to the user if it fails. * Add more feedback to the ssh-proxycommand subcommand when MONKEYSPHERE_LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG jamie (sjj) -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.10-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages monkeysphere depends on: ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 ii gnupg 1.4.14-1 ii libcrypt-openssl-rsa-perl 0.28-1 ii lockfile-progs 0.1.17 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.14.2-21 Versions of packages monkeysphere recommends: ii cron 3.0pl1-124 ii netcat-traditional [netcat] 1.10-40 ii openssh-client 1:6.2p2-6 ii socat 1.7.2.2-1 ii ssh-askpass 1:1.2.4.1-9 Versions of packages monkeysphere suggests: ii msva-perl [monkeysphere-validation-agent] 0.9.1-1 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
