Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Sun, Mar 23, 2025 at 12:41:31AM -0500 schrieb Dale: >> Dale wrote: >>> Sorry it took me a bit to do anything with this. We still working on >>> that tree. We getting close to being done. Anyway, I mounted the new >>> SSD OS on the old OS and copied over /etc and /root again. I really >>> don't need /home much since I only use root on that thing. Oh, for >>> fstab, I used the same labels on each. After doing that, I shutdown, >>> unplugged the old drive and booted the SSD OS up. I was able to login >>> over ssh even. I'm sure something in /etc was messed up somehow. I >>> think it worked a couple times before failing. So, this time, I did >>> several reboots and shutdowns just to be as sure as I could be. It >>> worked each time. >> Well, it took a little longer than I expected. I booted the NAS box to >> update my backups. It booted just fine, couldn't login tho. > How do you know it booted fine? Did you have a monitor attached? > Could you log in locally with a keyboard? >
I do have a monitor hooked up. Keep saying I'm going to put the monitor on the shelf before I bump it and knock it over or something and break it. Those screens are touchy. Nothing like the old CRT days for sure. I first tried to login over ssh from my main rig. Didn't work. When I tried to login with the keyboard connected to the machine itself, I could type in root, hit return and it would sit for a bit, then return to a login prompt. It never asked for a password. I had to use the alt sysrq key trick to shut it down as graceful as I could without being able to login. >> I usually >> use ssh and meant to save the error but already cleared the Konsole. >> Force of habit. My plan, reinstall the OS on the SSD and be done with >> it. > Would be really helpful to know the error message. For instance whether it > came from ssh, the network, PAM or whatever else is involved in the login > process. Perhaps it’s got something to do with ssh host keys, because after > moving the SSD, the system has a different IP, but your machine still knows > the host key from a different IP. > Did the error message start with @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@? I meant to leave the one where I tried to ssh in on my screen. Thing is, when I complete a task, I tend to clear the screen. I forgot and cleared it out of habit and the error was gone. I don't recall any @ stuff. To be honest tho, when it failed, I just grabbed the keyboard and tried it. I didn't really read it. It wasn't the usual key don't match thingy tho. >> It likely has a simple fix but it's either reinstall or target practice. > Due to the nature of Gentoo, I’d always prefer fixing over reinstall. It’s > just faster and better for the environment. > I wouldn't have minded fixing it but it was taking way longer than just reinstalling from scratch. I did have backups but just copied what I needed, nfs, make.conf and such from the old drive. I didn't need to copy much over really. Mostly just settings like make.conf and my exports file. Oh, /root as well. Got my little so called scripts in there. Anyway, the install is done now. It worked last time I booted anyway. Could break next time I boot tho, I guess. :/ Dale :-) :-)
