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Re: sftp exits with error NULL pointer given as argument
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 10:22:19 +0200
- Subject: Re: sftp exits with error NULL pointer given as argument
- References: <42957BAD.4040508@013.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On May 26 10:33, Pavel Rosenboim wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm connecting with sftp from my work computer running Win2k SP4 to my
> home computer running Fedora Core 3. My ssh config file turns on port
> forwarding for several ports. In this configuration sftp exits with
> error: "xfree: NULL pointer given as argument". When port forwarding is
> turned off sftp connects without problems. Also this happens only with
> sftp not ssh. The problem started after upgrading openssh package to
> version 4.0p1 and doesn't happen with previous releases. I also tried to
> connect from Fedora Core 4 test3 machine which also uses openssh 4.0p1
> with same configuration and it does work.
>
> Output of sftp -v -v -v -v -v pavel@pashar.dyndns.org
> Connecting to pashar.dyndns.org...
> OpenSSH_4.0p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7g 11 Apr 2005
> debug1: Reading configuration data /home/pavelr/.ssh/config
> debug1: Applying options for pashar.dyndns.org
> debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
> xfree: NULL pointer given as argument
> Connection closed
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Any changes made to /etc/ssh_config?
Corinna
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