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MannyCalavera
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 7:25 pm    Post subject: VPS, cant su, no PTY. Is it dead? Reply with quote

Hi all,

Not sure if this is the right forum, but here goes. I did a system update, and now have problems. I know, its my own fault, should never have done it, but its done now, and this is my last try at fixing it before reinstalling.

The good news is, I can ssh in, the bad news is, when I do, i get this:

Code:
PTY allocation request failed on channel 0


I dont have sudo and ssh for root is disabled, which leaves su but I cant su:

Code:
su: must be run from a terminal


Because theres no pty devices.

Code:
ls /dev/pt*
/dev/ptmx

/dev/pts:


Which puts me in a bit of a pickle; I need root to remount pty, and pty to get to root.

After googling like a madman, I came across MAKEDEV, which as I understood didn't need permissions in order to create devices.

I compiled it and can run it, but apparently it does need permissions.

Code:
./MAKEDEV -c /home/user/MAKEDEV-3.23/makedev.d pty
MAKEDEV: error making /dev/ptyp0: Operation not permitted


Busybox says this when i try and su:

Code:
busybox su
su: must be suid to work properly


Incase its any use, this is mount -l

Quote:
/dev/simfs on / type simfs (rw,relatime,usrquota,grpquota)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=10240k,gid=500)


So, I'm out of ideas. If anybody has any ideas I would be eternally grateful.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 2:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

MannyCalavera ...

does the following work?

Code:
ssh host "/bin/bash -l"
su --login

best ... khay
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 5:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for your reply khay,

Unfortunately I still get "su: must be run from a terminal" when running the su --login line.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 7:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

MannyCalavera wrote:
Unfortunately I still get "su: must be run from a terminal" when running the su --login line.

MannyCalavera ...

OK, I acutually made a small mistake in the above ... I ment '-i' (interactive) rather than '-l' (login) but it should have worked either way. Anyhow, a somewhat more desperate attempt at getting a pty:

Code:
ssh host "/bin/bash -i"
echo "import pty; pty.spawn('/bin/bash')" > login.py && python ./login.py
su

HTH & best ... khay
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 9:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks again for your reply! Heres what I get after logging in:

Quote:
ssh user@server.com "/bin/bash -i"
bash: cannot set terminal process group (-1): Invalid argument


Then running the command:

Quote:

$ echo "import pty; pty.spawn('/bin/bash')" > login.py && python ./login.py


Prints this:

Quote:

<ty; pty.spawn('/bin/bash')" > login.py && python ./login.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./login.py", line 1, in <module>
import pty; pty.spawn('/bin/bash')
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/pty.py", line 165, in spawn
pid, master_fd = fork()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/pty.py", line 107, in fork
master_fd, slave_fd = openpty()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/pty.py", line 29, in openpty
master_fd, slave_name = _open_terminal()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/pty.py", line 70, in _open_terminal
raise os.error, 'out of pty devices'
OSError: out of pty devices
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 7:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

MannyCalavera ...

I did say 'desperate' ... as it stands I can't see anyway of fixing this, sorry.

best ... khay
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 6:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, I thought it was, but thanks a lot for your help anyway; really appreciated.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 1:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

How about booting from minimal install disc and chroot into the system ?
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 7:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sounds like https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438932

Basically, you need

Code:
rc-update add udev sysinit
rc-update add udev-mount sysinit


If you do not have physical access to the box, this may present difficulties.
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