Re: Cannot start sshd service

[Walter Garcia-Fontes <walter dot garcia at upf dot edu>]

Here I answer to all the suggestions of Gerrit and Igor:

Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu> [041105 10:23]:
> On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Walter Garcia-Fontes wrote:
>
> > I'd appreciate any hint to solve the following problem:
> >
> > I get the "Could not start sshd service on Local Computer. Error 1067:
> > The process terminated unexpectedly." I've seen some reports on this
> > in the archives, but none of the solutions suggested worked for me.Here
> > is the status of my installation:
> >
> > 1) I followed carefully all the steps in the specific doc for openssh
> > for Cygwin (/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README).
>
> Does this mean you ran ssh-host-config to install the sshd service?

Yes, this is the way I did it, though I also tried to do it with
cyrgrunsrv with the following format:

cygrunsrv -I sshd -p /usr/sbin/sshd -e "CYGWIN=binmode ntsec tty" -a "-D"

>
> > 2) I'm running it under the SYSTEM account. I'm able to launch the sshd
> > service manually from a sysbash, and it accepts remote connections
> > without a problem, but I can't start from the service manager of with
> > "net start sshd".
>
> What does the Windows Event Log show?  Is there anything in
> /var/log/sshd.log (even though as installed by ssh-host-config, sshd
> doesn't log there by default).

Nothing in /var/log/sshd.log (the file exists but has 0 size).
In the event viewer I see errors coming from the Service Control
Manager, EventID:7041 with the following description:

The CYGWIN sshd service terminated unexpectedly.  It has done this 4
time(s).  The following corrective action will be taken in 0
milliseconds: No action. 

>
> > 3) I double checked permissions in the relevant files, and set them up
> > the way the doc says in 1), but it doesn't work.
>
> Are all the needed DLLs executable (run "cygcheck /usr/sbin/sshd.exe" to
> list the DLLs)?  Are all of them in the PATH for the service?
>

I get the following:
D:/cygwin/usr/sbin/sshd.exe
  D:\cygwin\bin\cygcrypt-0.dll
    D:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll
      C:\WINNT\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL
        C:\WINNT\system32\NTDLL.DLL
        C:\WINNT\system32\KERNEL32.DLL
        C:\WINNT\system32\RPCRT4.DLL
  D:\cygwin\bin\cygcrypto-0.9.7.dll
  D:\cygwin\bin\cygz.dll

And this are the permissions:

-rwxrwxrwx+ 1 wgarac   Users     282112 Sep 22 19:24 D:/cygwin/usr/sbin/sshd.exe*
-rwxrwxrwx+ 1 wgarac   Users       6656 Oct 19 2003  D:/cygwin/bin/cygcrypt-0.dll*
-rwxrwxrwx+ 1 wgarac   Users    1138057 Sep 5  05:18 D:/cygwin/bin/cygwin1.dll*
-rwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administ Administ  388368 Mar 24 2004  c:/winnt/system32/ADVAPI32.DLL*
-rwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administ Administ  497936 Mar 24 2004  c:/winnt/system32/NTDLL.DLL*
-rwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administ Administ  742160 Mar 24 2004  c:/winnt/system32/KERNEL32.DLL*
-rwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administ Administ  432400 Jul 5  2003  c:/winnt/system32/RPCRT4.DLL*
-rwxrwxrwx+ 1 wgarac   Users     859136 Sep 27 16:12 D:/cygwin/bin/cygcrypto-0.9.7.dll*
-rwxrwxrwx+ 1 wgarac   Users      62976 Oct 10 06:09 D:/cygwin/bin/cygz.dll*

> > [snip]
> > 5) I mounted everything as system and binmode.
>
> Since you ran from system bash, could you also verify that there are no
> *user* mounts for the SYSTEM account?

Yes, I verified that, all are system mounts. This is what I get from
the sysbash:

D:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
D:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
D:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)
c: on /cygdrive/c type system (binmode)
d: on /cygdrive/d type system (binmode)
e: on /cygdrive/e type system (binmode)
f: on /cygdrive/f type system (binmode)
h: on /cygdrive/h type system (binmode)
m: on /cygdrive/m type system (binmode)
w: on /cygdrive/w type system (binmode)
x: on /cygdrive/x type system (binmode)
y: on /cygdrive/y type system (binmode)
z: on /cygdrive/z type system (binmode)

>
> > 6) Here is the output of cygcheck:
> > [snip]
>
> In the future, please *attach* the output of cygcheck, to minimize false
> positive hits in archive searches.  Besides, your cut&paste seems to have
> cut off the first column on some lines...
>

Yes, sorry, I don't know why I thought non-attachments was the
preferred way (I've been a user of this list and cygwin almost since
the beginning...).

> One more suggestion: add a script like
>
> #!/bin/sh
> date >> /var/log/test.log
> env >> /var/log/test.log
> echo "---------------------------------" >> /var/log/test.log
>
> as a service called "test" with cygrunsrv (using the same options as your

I did this, and giving the following options to cygrunsrv I got the
following in the log:

cygrunsrv -I test -p /cygdrive/c/users/wgarac/test/test -e "CYGWIN=binmode ntsec tty"

Got:
Fri Nov  5 16:12:05 RST 2004
ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
COMMONPROGRAMFILES=C:\Program Files\Common Files
COMPUTERNAME=CJQ082
COMSPEC=C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe
CYGWIN=binmode ntsec tty
HOME=/
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=2
OS2LIBPATH=C:\WINNT\system32\os2\dll;
OS=Windows_NT
PATH=/cygdrive/c/texmf/miktex/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINNT:/
cygdrive/c/WINNT/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/nls:/cygdrive/c/WINNT/
system32/nls/ENGLISH:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Common Files/Adaptec
Shared/System:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/:/bin
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 6 Model 11 Stepping 1, GenuineIntel
PROCESSOR_LEVEL=6
PROCESSOR_REVISION=0b01
PROGRAMFILES=C:\Program Files
SYSTEMDRIVE=C:
SYSTEMROOT=C:\WINNT
TEMP=/cygdrive/c/WINNT/TEMP
TERM=cygwin
TMP=/cygdrive/c/WINNT/TEMP
USERPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\Default User
WINDIR=C:\WINNT
---------------------------------

Nothing strange, as far as I can tell...

* Gerrit P. Haase <gerrit@familiehaase.de> [041105 15:02]:
> Walter Garcia-Fontes wrote:
> >I'd appreciate any hint to solve the following problem:
> >
> >I get the "Could not start sshd service on Local Computer. Error 1067:
> >The process terminated unexpectedly." I've seen some reports on this
> >in the archives, but none of the solutions suggested worked for me. Here
> >is the status of my installation:
> 
> 
> >5) I mounted everything as system and binmode.
> 
> Is the drive where cygwin is installed a netdrive or subst'ed?

No, it's a SCSI local drive.


I attach again the cygcheck output just in case.

-- 
Walter Garcia-Fontes               
Barcelona

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