Connection failure during creation of remote data collection configuration   

vpa-ies 6.3.0 on Windows XP

Stepping through the dialogs for setting up a remote data collection configuration, on the page where you select the application to launch, the help suggests that clicking on the "..." button will bring up a dialog that allows you to browse the remote system.

When I click on the button, the "Progress Information" dialog appears, and the lower status text immediately indicates that the attempt has failed. However the dialog remains there. On several attempts, the dialog wouldn't exit even after hitting cancel, and waiting for several minutes. VPA was unresponsive, and I had to kill it.

I've tried both password, and key based authentication, they behave the same.

The remote system is AIX with sshd running. I'm able to connect to the ssh server using putty, or cygwin.

I looked in the .metadata directory under the workspace. The .log file has this small hint of a problem:

!ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi 2 1 2009-07-15 11:53:32.937
!MESSAGE NLS unused message: CopyTools_DownloadFileFile_FailedDownloadFile in: org.eclipse.ptp.remotetools.internal.ssh.messages

Any thoughts on what the problem is, or how to get better trace would be appreciated.

Thanks for the quick help. I installed the bash rpm. That did the trick.

Looking at the documentation, there are references to running bash commands, but nothing says that bash is needed.

It would be nice to have that requirement mentioned in the help where it indicates openssh.base.server has to be installed.