[mosh-users] [mosh-devel] Getting started with Mosh

[Chason Chaffin]

Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately this didn't work.

However, I do think that I have the beginnings of an idea what the
problem is. I just noticed (why didn't I notice this before??) that
when I run mosh-server as an unprivileged user in Debian, I get this
error:

forkpty: No such file or directory

This does not appear when I run mosh-server as sudo. Now, while
forkpty seems to be a C function, it does not appear to be a file
anywhere. Does anyone know what might be going with forkpty and how I
can fix it?

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Keith Winstein <keithw at mit.edu> wrote:
> Hello Chason,
>
> I don't have any good leads, but could you try compiling with the
> system skalibs and see if it makes any difference? That has helped
> others on Debian stable.
>
> $ ./configure --with-skalibs=/usr/lib/skalibs
> (you'll need the skalibs-dev package installed)
>
> Best of luck,
> Keith
>
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 10:46 PM, Chason Chaffin
> <cchaffin at mediatemple.net> wrote:
>> So Mosh looks absolutely amazing, and since I generally work with
>> several different servers over SSH via a roaming laptop, particularly
>> useful for me.
>>
>> However, I'm having problems getting Mosh working on one of my Debain
>> 6 servers. I've installed from source (using the git repo), but when I
>> try and connect from my laptop, mosh never connects. It starts up, but
>> then says that it goes (Xs without contact.), X obviously being
>> replaced by how many seconds its been waiting.
>>
>> I've tried debugging by doing the processes separately as mentioned on
>> the webpage, but it does the same thing. Connecting via SSH to this
>> server with the same credentials works (Its setup to only work with
>> SSH keys). I don't believe there is anything on the local network
>> blocking UDP, as a traceroute using UDP works with no problems, and
>> mosh works going to my Ubuntu server (that I installed using the PPA)
>>
>> Is there anything else I can do to debug this, or does anyone have an
>> idea of what might be going on?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chason
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