Hi,
I run Slackware 13 in a virtual container at some vserver host.
I do encounter some strange behaviour on the console via SSH:
- `less` doesn't work. It quits immediately, without an error message. Editors as `nano` do work.
- `passwd` does not work. It immediately returns the following:
Code:
$ passwd
Changing password for USER
Enter the new password (minimum of 5 characters)
Please use a combination of upper and lower case letters and numbers.
Bad password: too short. Try again.
Bad password: too short. Try again.
Bad password: too short. Try again.
Bad password: too short. Try again.
Bad password: too short. Try again.
The password for resgames is unchanged.
Some web searching brought up that this might be a problem with the /dev file system. It looks like this:
Code:
ls -l /dev/
total 8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2011-01-07 19:24 X0R -> null
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 160 2012-07-10 22:57 char/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2011-01-07 19:24 core -> /proc/kcore
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2011-01-07 19:24 fd -> /proc/self/fd/
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 7 2012-07-10 22:57 full
prw------- 1 root root 0 2008-08-31 01:19 initctl|
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30 2012-07-10 22:57 kmsg
srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 2012-07-10 22:57 log=
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 2012-07-10 22:57 null
crw-rw---- 1 root root 108, 0 2008-10-09 13:37 ppp
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 5, 2 2012-11-02 13:00 ptmx
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2012-07-10 22:57 pts/
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 8 2012-07-10 22:57 random
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40 2008-09-23 01:39 shm/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2011-01-07 19:24 stderr -> /proc/self/fd/2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2011-01-07 19:24 stdin -> /proc/self/fd/0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2011-01-07 19:24 stdout -> /proc/self/fd/1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14 2012-11-02 12:43 tty
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 9 2012-07-10 22:57 urandom
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 5 2012-07-10 22:57 zero
To me these look like problems reading from the keyboard.
I'm currently at the end of my wits. Any ideas how to tackle this?
Thanks,
fbmd