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

[Chason Chaffin]

hmm, you are correct, screen won't work either!

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Discussing this with my
company's systems engineers. When I find a fix, I'll be sure to reply
to this thread. Of course, if anyone else has seen this before or
comes up with a fix first, I'd love to hear it. ;)

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 8:28 PM, Keith Winstein <keithw at mit.edu> wrote:
> That generally means your system is out of tty's (or perhaps you have
> some sort of ulimit or other security setting).
>
> Can you successfully log in and run "screen"?
>
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Chason Chaffin
> <cchaffin at mediatemple.net> wrote:
>> 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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