Package: openssh-client Version: 1:5.1p1-5 Severity: important Hello,
without apparent reason the ssh client on my system stopped to work when connecting to some systems. When I try to connect to a certain server, the connection (including local and remote forwards) are established and work well, but ssh fails to spawn a shell at the other end (or fails to connect its output to the local tty). The last lines before ssh just hangs look like this: .... debug1: Sending environment. debug1: Sending env LANG = en_US.UTF-8 debug2: channel 2: request env confirm 0 debug1: Sending env LC_ALL = en_US.UTF-8 debug2: channel 2: request env confirm 0 debug1: Sending env LC_C = en_US.UTF-8 debug2: channel 2: request env confirm 0 debug1: Sending env LC_CTYPE = en_US.UTF-8 debug2: channel 2: request env confirm 0 debug1: Sending env LC_PAPER = a4 debug2: channel 2: request env confirm 0 debug2: channel 2: request shell confirm 1 debug2: fd 3 setting TCP_NODELAY debug2: callback done debug2: channel 2: open confirm rwindow 0 rmax 32768 [... hangs here...] What I mean by "hangs here" is that the tunnels work fine, and the control master is usable for shared connections that do not invoke an interactive shell, but any attempt to kill ssh by pressing ^C or even ^\ fails. (The keystrokes are then printed out to the shell after I killed the client using `kill'.) After an hour or so of research, I narrowed this down to ssh passing the LC_CTYPE environment variable, which is set to en_US.UTF-8 on my system. If I run `env LC_CTYPE=C ssh host' or `env -u LC_CTYPE ssh host' everything works fine. I figured out the problem is not the remote host (because connecting from other machines with LC_CTYPE set works well), neither the shell running on the remote host (I tested both zsh and bash, and neither complained, not even about boguous LC_CTYPE settings). OTOH, programs that probably don't honour these settings (I tested `ssh host echo foo') work even with LC_CTYPE set. Cheers, Julius -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages openssh-client depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debcon 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy ii dpkg 1.14.25 Debian package management system ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcomerr2 1.41.3-1 common error description library ii libedit2 2.11~20080614-1 BSD editline and history libraries ii libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5lenny1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libncurses5 5.7+20081213-1 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8g-15+lenny5 SSL shared libraries ii passwd 1:4.1.1-6 change and administer password and ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime Versions of packages openssh-client recommends: ii openssh-blacklist 0.4.1 list of default blacklisted OpenSS ii openssh-blacklist-extra 0.4.1 list of non-default blacklisted Op ii xauth 1:1.0.3-2 X authentication utility Versions of packages openssh-client suggests: pn keychain <none> (no description available) pn libpam-ssh <none> (no description available) ii ssh-askpass 1:1.2.4.1-7 under X, asks user for a passphras -- 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
