sshd not starting ARM Cortex A8

[akirahinoshiro]

Hello,

currently I try to use Gentoo on a Cortex A8 ebook reader (Kobo touch).
It is booting so far and I was also able to start the usb network (usb gadget rndis).
My problem is the sshd init script is not starting neither the rc-update version nor using a custom startup script (/etc/local.d).
The script itself is starting, I can read a "debug" file.
I can not use the display so far and there is no serial console tty to use.

How can I debug why sshd is not starting?
syslog-ng is not helping so far, dmesg is the same.

Thank you for any input or ideas

[shrike]

Greetings akirahinoshiro,

I lack the expertise to help with diagnosis of sshd startup failure. But I am curious about it and I suggest you share log files (dmesg, syslog) using app-text/wgetpaste. More eyeballs may reveal a clue. As a long shot I would also include rc.log (off by default in /etc/rc.conf).

From another angle I see several kobo github repositiries including this one (kobo-kernel) which mentions tty access on the Kobo motherboard. This would risk damaging the hardware though.

Regards,

shrike

[Ant P.]

Are the host keys in /etc/ssh/ missing? If they are, you can set them up ahead of time using `ssh-keygen -A` from another system, in a chroot.
The init script is supposed to generate them itself but it takes a long time even on fast CPUs, so it might be timing out.