12.04 server oddity

[Phil Dobbin]

On 05/08/2013 08:56 PM, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:

> On 2013-05-08 20:10, Phil Dobbin wrote:
>> I enabled the ssh server during install but saw no option to disable ufw
>> (it may have been there but I wasn't really looking for it). No open
>> ports by default is fine by me ...
> 
> If you enabled SSH during install, then you should have a listening SSH
> server. UFW is _not_ activated by default with a normal Ubuntu Server
> install as of 12.04. I don't know what happened here.
> 
>> but the screen nonsense is ridiculous.
> 
> There are good reasons to use Plymouth, whatever you may think of splash
> screens. It's easy to disable it and get the normal text boot process with
> Plymouth.
> 
> I'm sorry you've had so much trouble with the display, but there's
> something else going on with the SSH setup, the server, or the network.


Interesting. ssh was working & got all the way to the password prompt
before permission was denied ('password/public key').

Running it verbose you could see it checked the public key in the
machine that was trying to connect & that passed verification & it just
stalled at the (correct) password on the target machine.

>From having seen this error message on more than one occasion in the
past, I figured that the firewall on the target machine was blocking
incoming connections on port 22 as is usually the case. Still, no
matter. I wasn't in much of a position to go any further to troubleshoot
why it was denying access, so I figured it must be the firewall as
nothing else presented itself to dissuade me otherwise & that particular
attempt at installing 12.04 server was destroyed (I installed Debian to
check it wasn't a fault my end & that it functioned correctly).

As for Plymouth, they must do as they must but it would be helpful to
alert potential users about problems such as these. In all honesty I
know of several people in my situation who'd have just swore at the
situation, deleted offending distro & gone ahead & installed either
Debian or CentOS (time is money & all that) & that'd been that.

Cheers,

  Phil...

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