FTP Access impossible for images in Multiboot

[AlexWilMac]

I've been using OMB for quite a long time and I've had both BH or OBH in flash. Whatever configuration I had, I had always been able to ftp either to images installed in flash or in OMB.
At the moment, BH 3.0.2G is in flash and OBH and another BH (3.0.2F) are in Multiboot.
But in this last week or two it happens something strange: if I try to ftp any of the two images in OMB, I receive a deny.
The situation is even more odd because if I use iDreamX or DreamExplorer for windows, they are able to succeed in checking the box IP. But then they cannot browse its folders.
Filezilla the same: it gets this error "ECONNREFUSED".

Has to be noticed that trying to open a telnet session from iDreamX, it gets this prompt:

vusolo4k login: root
Last login: Fri Sep 23 16:00:13 CEST 2016 on pts/0
7[r[999;999H8root@vusolo4k:~#

and not just
root@vusolo4k:~#

So I also tried to use as root name the whole 7[r[999;999H8root but without success.

I would almost understand if neither IP checks nor FTP would work. But why this odd behaviour?
And, anyway, I'm no longer able to FTP in OMB as before.

It's surely not a password modified and then forgotten otherwise it would not work also the IP checking and, overall, because
1) the problem affects every images in OMB and not only one
2) if I install a backup of these images in root everything is OK.

It seems a problem of last updates of OMB.

 

[AlexWilMac]

Nobody has the same problem?
Meanwhile, I can add this: I've installed now OpenPLI in Flash (because in OMB it cause many issues) and BH, OBH and others in OMB.
Well: only OBH 0.6 has this problem.
This makes impossible many common actions like use settings softwares and so on.

 

[Ev0]

I do not have any problems, and I have multiple images in omb on various boxes and can telnet and ftp to them all without problems.

I think something is corrupt on your usb / hdd.

 

[AlexWilMac]

I don't think it is the HDD for the following reasons:
1) Only OBH has produced already twice the same problem. Every other images haven't.
2) I deleted the OBH installed in OMB and reinstalled getting to the same problem.

 

[AlexWilMac]

After some days I decided to perform a new clean install (although in OMB) hoping that the problem was caused by my backup of OBH (previously used in flash).
But it did again the same thing. Just to be sure, I have also changed the HDD but, as I expected, it was not the reason: every other images run fine in OMB (and also OBH, for other aspects) and don't have this strange root user, but OBH.
Now I don't need any longer OpenPLI in flash (as in OMB caused too many problems), I'll get back to have OBH in flash, otherwise it's too wild...

 

[Ev0]

Good to hear you finally sorted your issue out.

Even better to hear it was nothing to do with OBH.

 

[AlexWilMac]

No, as I wrote, nothing changed. Also the new, fresh installation "did again the same thing".
The root user is this strange "7[r[999;999H8root" and this makes impossible to have ftp access with every other operation (like, load settings, perform updates through telnet and so on).
Only OBH has this issue if installed in openmultiboot.

 

[Ev0]

No, as I wrote, nothing changed. Also the new, fresh installation "did again the same thing".
The root user is this strange "7[r[999;999H8root" and this makes impossible to have ftp access with every other operation (like, load settings, perform updates through telnet and so on).
Only OBH has this issue if installed in openmultiboot.

Yes and above you wrote you have openpli in flash.

THAT is the problem, the openpli omb is not the same, and it is not fully compatible.

 

[AlexWilMac]

OK. Yes, I have the OpenPLI in flash exactly because it gave me problems in OMB. My intention is, now I don't need it any longer, to backup it and restore OBH in flash.

 

[AlexWilMac]

After some months again here.
I was tempted to open a new thread, because I had twice the same problem with OBH but, these last two times it was not in multiboot but in flash. And this is even more strange.
Always the same situation. If nobody else has ever had this problem, it's a mystery and it means it depends on something in my installation. But I don't have much more than a plain image has.
The strange is that openwebif always works.

 

[darian23]

After some months again here.
I was tempted to open a new thread, because I had twice the same problem with OBH but, these last two times it was not in multiboot but in flash. And this is even more strange.
Always the same situation. If nobody else has ever had this problem, it's a mystery and it means it depends on something in my installation. But I don't have much more than a plain image has.
The strange is that openwebif always works.

do you use openvpn?

 

[Matrix10]

After some months again here.
I was tempted to open a new thread, because I had twice the same problem with OBH but, these last two times it was not in multiboot but in flash. And this is even more strange.
Always the same situation. If nobody else has ever had this problem, it's a mystery and it means it depends on something in my installation. But I don't have much more than a plain image has.
The strange is that openwebif always works.

I use TotalCommander for years and I had never problems with FTP
on any image in flash.
If you have problems with FTP with totalcommander then it is something else problem and not image or totalcommander.

Multiboot I not use except sometimes for the test.

 

[AlexWilMac]

As I wrote, this time the problem didn't occur in a OMB installation (that's why I said I was tempted to open a new thread, as this titles about multiboot.
After some tries, I found out it was the FTP daemon which did not want to start. At first I hadn't noticed that as some remote functions worked but then I realised they were not linked to the FTP service but, for instance, to telnet or others.
So, it must've been the same problem also when I opened this thread in Sept, 2016.
I solved working only with the kernel and I solved. But it was a bit empirical