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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2014-11-10 16:03:51 +0100
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2014-11-10 16:03:51 +0100
commitd436e44ae3a7fc310660db0cc3078a9c1c9318e4 (patch)
tree1c635a6edbf52a72bef012dffc4bda18d75aa631
parent087581a6428920f781008815cac4bec6a739a8aa (diff)
SSH.pm: Print a friendlier message if connecting fails
"got EOF while expecting 8 bytes from remote side" is not very helpful.
-rw-r--r--perl/lib/Nix/CopyClosure.pm1
-rw-r--r--perl/lib/Nix/SSH.pm15
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/perl/lib/Nix/CopyClosure.pm b/perl/lib/Nix/CopyClosure.pm
index 1520f1012..800feb3b4 100644
--- a/perl/lib/Nix/CopyClosure.pm
+++ b/perl/lib/Nix/CopyClosure.pm
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ sub copyTo {
if ($@) {
chomp $@;
warn "$@; falling back to old closure copying method\n";
+ $@ = "";
return oldCopyTo(@_);
}
diff --git a/perl/lib/Nix/SSH.pm b/perl/lib/Nix/SSH.pm
index 9e0c10beb..95393d881 100644
--- a/perl/lib/Nix/SSH.pm
+++ b/perl/lib/Nix/SSH.pm
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
package Nix::SSH;
+use utf8;
use strict;
use File::Temp qw(tempdir);
use IPC::Open2;
@@ -89,10 +90,16 @@ sub connectToRemoteNix {
my $pid = open2($from, $to, "exec ssh -x -a $sshHost @globalSshOpts @{$sshOpts} nix-store --serve --write $extraFlags");
# Do the handshake.
- my $SERVE_MAGIC_1 = 0x390c9deb; # FIXME
- my $clientVersion = 0x200;
- syswrite($to, pack("L<x4L<x4", $SERVE_MAGIC_1, $clientVersion)) or die;
- die "did not get valid handshake from remote host\n" if readInt($from) != 0x5452eecb;
+ my $magic;
+ eval {
+ my $SERVE_MAGIC_1 = 0x390c9deb; # FIXME
+ my $clientVersion = 0x200;
+ syswrite($to, pack("L<x4L<x4", $SERVE_MAGIC_1, $clientVersion)) or die;
+ $magic = readInt($from);
+ };
+ die "unable to connect to ‘$sshHost’\n" if $@;
+ die "did not get valid handshake from remote host\n" if $magic != 0x5452eecb;
+
my $serverVersion = readInt($from);
die "unsupported server version\n" if $serverVersion < 0x200 || $serverVersion >= 0x300;