#864 Issue closed: SLES12: /var/lib/empty is missing, SSHD does not start¶
Labels: won't fix / can't fix / obsolete
abbbi opened issue at 2016-06-06 11:31:¶
- rear version (/usr/sbin/rear -V): 1.18
- OS version (cat /etc/rear/os.conf or lsb_release -a): SLES12 SP1
by default on SLES12 sshd daemon does not start during recovery because
/var/lib/empty
is missing (/sbin/sshd will complain)
Simply creating the directory fixes this problem. Probably directory
should be included during
mkrescue run.
jsmeix commented at 2016-06-06 12:26:¶
It never happened for me.
On all my test systems (in particular on SLE12-SP1)
I have in /etc/rear/local.conf something like
SSH_ROOT_PASSWORD="rear"
and ssh access to the rear recovery system
always "just worked" for me.
@abbbi
Do you have a non-default ssh configuration?
Does in /etc/rear/local.conf something like
COPY_AS_IS=( "${COPY_AS_IS[@]}" /var/lib/empty )
also fix it for you?
abbbi commented at 2016-06-06 12:28:¶
we have set a custom password in local.conf:
SSH_ROOT_PASSWORD="recover"
besides that i used:
COPY_AS_IS=( "${COPY_AS_IS[@]}" /var/lib/empty )
to fix the problem!
gdha commented at 2016-06-08 11:54:¶
@abbbi I've checked our skel tree and skel/default/var/lib/empty does
exist, therefore, it should always be present in a rescue environment. I
just check a rescue image and /var/lib/empty directory was there. Are
you really sure this directory was the issue?
gdha commented at 2016-07-07 16:36:¶
@jsmeix If you could verify on a rescue environment (any SLES I guess)
that directoru /var/lib/empty is there by default?
gdha commented at 2016-09-05 06:52:¶
Verified it several times and /var/lib/empty is always present in the rescue image. No need to add it to the COPY_AS_IS array
jsmeix commented at 2016-09-15 14:14:¶
Regarding
https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/864#issuecomment-231135110
see my
https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/864#issuecomment-223944174
i.e. it never happened for me and on all my test systems I had
a /var/lib/empty/ directory in the recovery system e.g right now
on SLES12-SP2:
RESCUE d245:~ # ls -ld /var/lib/empty/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Aug 17 13:49 /var/lib/empty/
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