[Buildroot] Buildroot for powerpc, no prompt + OpenSSH login

Thu Jan 21 15:54:25 UTC 2010

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On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 04:49:10PM +0100, Clément Foucher wrote:
> Oops...
> My bad ! I checked "generic serial port config", but forgot to
> select "ttyUL0" ;-P...
> Thank you for your help.
> 
> Anyway, my second problem still doesn't work, can you help me with that?
> I re-explain here:
> 
> When I try the to connect to the OpenSSH of my card, it does ask me
> for a password.

Logins as root are not normally allowed unless you explictly set that
the 'PermitRootLogin' option in your sshd_config.

> But root user doesn't have a password, I can login without it.

That's another option, see 'PermitEmptyPasswords'.

> How to do? Should I connect with a different user?

In general, yes. Don't know what you're planning to do, but from a
security standpoint, you shouldn't work and login as root. Rather use
sudo.

> Is there a default password for SSH?

Hell no, of course not!

Daniel

> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Daniel Mack" <daniel at caiaq.de>
> Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 3:43 PM
> To: "ClémentFoucher" <Clement.FOUCHER at unice.fr>
> Cc: <buildroot at busybox.net>
> Subject: Re: [Buildroot] Buildroot for powerpc, no prompt + OpenSSH login
> 
> >On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 03:29:13PM +0100, Clément Foucher wrote:
> >>I'm using buildroot to create a filesystem for my Linux embedded
> >>on a Xilinx ml507 board (the processor is a PowerPC 440)
> >>Before using buildroot, I used the default filesystem shipped
> >>with ELDK, and it worked, but I hadn't the default applications
> >>I needed (particularly OpenSSH).
> >>
> >>So I tried to create a filesystem including OpenSSH using
> >>buildroot. Then, when I launched the Linux, I saw all the
> >>startup messages, but never get the prompt that would allow me
> >>to enter commands on the console.
> >>
> >>I though that it could be a problem in the configuration of
> >>OpenSSH, so I retried with a standard configuration, just
> >>setting my architecture (powerpc/440) in xconfig, not adding any
> >>options, but I got the same problem.
> >>
> >>As a last test, I activated console information in order to
> >>force the getty to ttyUL0, witch is the port that I use for the
> >>console output (the one where I see the boot messages, that are
> >>correct), but it didn't changed anything.
> >>
> >>Here are the boot messages I got for the bare installation
> >>(without OpenSSH) :
> >
> >Your problem doesn't seem to be related to OpenSSH. There is just no
> >getty being launched on your serial console. Assuming you're using the
> >generic target, select BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_GETTY_TTYUL0 and rebuild, that
> >should do the trick.
> >
> >HTH,
> >Daniel
> >
> >
> >
> >>zImage starting: loaded at 0x00400000 (sp: 0x00576eb0)
> >>Allocating 0x30f521 bytes for kernel ...
> >>gunzipping (0x00000000 <- 0x0040d000:0x00575df1)...done 0x2f2028 bytes
> >>
> >>Linux/PowerPC load: console=ttyUL0 ip=134.59.157.61 root=/dev/xsa2 rw
> >>Finalizing device tree... flat tree at 0x583300
> >>Using Xilinx Virtex440 machine description
> >>Linux version 2.6.31 (foucher at gentiane) (gcc version 4.2.2) #2
> >>PREEMPT Thu Jan 2
> >>1 10:16:43 CET 2010
> >>Zone PFN ranges:
> >>  DMA      0x00000000 -> 0x00010000
> >>  Normal   0x00010000 -> 0x00010000
> >>Movable zone start PFN for each node
> >>early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
> >>    0: 0x00000000 -> 0x00010000
> >>MMU: Allocated 1088 bytes of context maps for 255 contexts
> >>Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total
> >>pages: 65024
> >>Kernel command line: console=ttyUL0 ip=134.59.157.61 root=/dev/xsa2 rw
> >>PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 4096 bytes)
> >>Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
> >>Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
> >>Memory: 256384k/262144k available (2868k kernel code, 5424k
> >>reserved, 120k data,
> >> 113k bss, 128k init)
> >>Kernel virtual memory layout:
> >>  * 0xffffe000..0xfffff000  : fixmap
> >>  * 0xfde00000..0xfe000000  : consistent mem
> >>  * 0xfde00000..0xfde00000  : early ioremap
> >>  * 0xd1000000..0xfde00000  : vmalloc & ioremap
> >>NR_IRQS:512
> >>clocksource: timebase mult[a00000] shift[22] registered
> >>Console: colour dummy device 80x25
> >>Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
> >>NET: Registered protocol family 16
> >>bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
> >>NET: Registered protocol family 2
> >>IP route cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
> >>TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
> >>TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
> >>TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
> >>TCP reno registered
> >>NET: Registered protocol family 1
> >>ROMFS MTD (C) 2007 Red Hat, Inc.
> >>msgmni has been set to 501
> >>io scheduler noop registered
> >>io scheduler anticipatory registered
> >>io scheduler deadline registered
> >>io scheduler cfq registered (default)
> >>Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
> >>84000000.serial: ttyUL0 at MMIO 0x84000003 (irq = 16) is a uartlite
> >>console [ttyUL0] enabled
> >>loop: module loaded
> >>xsysace 83600000.sysace: Xilinx SystemACE revision 1.0.12
> >>xsysace 83600000.sysace: capacity: 1019088 sectors
> >> xsa: xsa1 xsa2
> >>Xilinx SystemACE device driver, major=254
> >>Device Tree Probing 'ethernet'
> >>xilinx_lltemac 81c00000.ethernet: MAC address is now  0: a:35:92:8f: 0
> >>xilinx_lltemac 81c00000.ethernet: XLlTemac: using DMA mode.
> >>XLlTemac: DCR address: 0x80
> >>XLlTemac: buffer descriptor size: 32768 (0x8000)
> >>XLlTemac: Allocating DMA descriptors with kmalloc
> >>XLlTemac: (buffer_descriptor_init) phy: 0xf948000, virt:
> >>0xcf948000, size: 0x800
> >>0
> >>XTemac: PHY detected at address 7.
> >>eth0: Dropping NETIF_F_SG since no checksum feature.
> >>xilinx_lltemac 81c00000.ethernet: eth0: Xilinx TEMAC at
> >>0x81C00000 mapped to 0xD
> >>1028000, irq=18
> >>mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
> >>TCP cubic registered
> >>NET: Registered protocol family 17
> >>eth0: XLlTemac: Options: 0x3fa
> >>eth0: XLlTemac: allocating interrupt 20 for dma mode tx.
> >>eth0: XLlTemac: allocating interrupt 19 for dma mode rx.
> >>eth0: XLlTemac: speed set to 1000Mb/s
> >>eth0: XLlTemac: Send Threshold = 24, Receive Threshold = 4
> >>eth0: XLlTemac: Send Wait bound = 254, Receive Wait bound = 254
> >>IP-Config: Guessing netmask 255.255.0.0
> >>IP-Config: Complete:
> >>     device=eth0, addr=134.59.157.61, mask=255.255.0.0,
> >>gw=255.255.255.255,
> >>     host=134.59.157.61, domain=, nis-domain=(none),
> >>     bootserver=255.255.255.255, rootserver=255.255.255.255, rootpath=
> >>kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
> >>EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is
> >>recommended
> >>EXT3 FS on xsa2, internal journal
> >>EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
> >>EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with writeback data mode.
> >>VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) on device 254:2.
> >>Freeing unused kernel memory:`Initializing random number
> >>generator... done.
> >>Starting network...
> >>ip: RTNETLINK answers: File exists
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>... And it stops here.
> >>
> >>What should I do?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>As a second problem, when I tried the OpenSSH version, even if I
> >>couldn't have the prompt, I tried to connect to the OpenSSH of
> >>my card.
> >>It seems to work correctly, but it ask me for a password. I
> >>though that there wasn't any password ?
> >>I tried to log in as root and as default, but nothing worked.
> >>
> >>So is there a default password to log in?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Thank you.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
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