After last update to 9.3, Shell window never really opens, eventually goes away

[n3mmr]

After last update, in 9.3 stable, shell no longer works.

On clicking "Shell", a narrow vertical window appears, showing the text "Loading". This hangs there for like 5 seconds, and then disappears. Nothing appears in the bottom three-line window.

This has been tried in Firefox on Solaris, and latest Firefox and system default web browser under windows 10.

I have a workaround, enabling sshd and configuring a user using jexec in the top environment .

like so:
jexec <jailname> sh
# vi /etc/.....

and so on and so forth

 

[dlavigne]

Hardware specs?

Anything in /var/log/messages after you try to open shell?

 

[n3mmr]

Mar 21 16:14:21 Boxplay kernel: sonewconn: pcb 0xfffff8018dd1ce10: Listen queue overflow: 8 already in queue awaiting acceptance (6 occurrences)

HP N54L, 16 GB ECC memory, uses internal on board SATA ports.

 

[SweetAndLow]

Happens sometimes, have you tried rebooting?

 

[n3mmr]

I had rebooted, twice I think, but I did it again, and it worked.
Thanks.

Still: A bug?? Well known? In line for fixing??

 

[danb35]

I'd say it's a feature, not a bug--the GUI shell is garbage anyway, so you're much better off using SSH. But that glib answer aside, it probably isn't intended behavior.

 

[n3mmr]

If this is so, the web gui should include a way to enable ssh in a jail

 

[danb35]

Unnecessary. SSH to the server, jexec the jail.