I'm confirming this problem.

In fact, the problem appears when using stream_set_blocking ($stream, false).

so if you do something like :

$stream = ssh2_exec ($res, 'ls -l');
stream_set_blocking ($stream, false);
while ($line = fgets ($stream)) {
    echo $line;
}

the other calls to ssh2_exec will fail with this error.
I can't find where the problem could be but it a bug for sure.

If you using stream_set_blocking ($stream, true), you can call multiple ssh2_exec ();

Maybe the ssh connexion is closed or lost when using stream_set_blocking ($stream, false) ?

Thanks for your help !

We tried setting the stream blocking to true but this did not help. Looks like the problem is located deeper.

Hi,

I've also noticed this problem and there doesn't appear to be any work around at the moment apart from reverting back to libssh2 0.13. However this is a very old library and contains other bugs which inhibit development.

The PECL ext really needs revising to comply with the libssh2 1.2+ library.

Regards,

Miles

I hit the same problem on Solaris 10 with libssh2 1.1, but it seems to be fine with libssh2 1.2.4.

Seeing the same error.

Tried php 5.3.3 and ssh2-0.11.0 combined with libssh2-1.2.6 and libssh2-1.2.7 with no luck.  Now going to try php 5.3.3 with ssh2-0.11.2 with libssh2-1.2.7.  If that doesn't work going to try libssh2-1.2.4.

Simply try with the latest libssh2 version please.

The PHP binding does nothing but to read local data and other simple tasks. All the SSH2 implementation is part of libssh2.

libssh2-1.2.7 is the latest on the http://www.libssh2.org/ website.  When used with php 5.3.3 & PECL/ssh2-0.11.2 the first call to ssh2_exec with stream_set_blocking ($stream, false) works but upon trying to call ssh2_exec again it spits up

PHP Warning:  ssh2_exec(): Unable to request a channel from remote host in /opt/tool/sshtest.php on line 26

if stream_set_blocking is true it operates fine.

I am willing to pay to have this fixed.  The only workaround we have found is to establish a SSH connection EVERY time you need to exec which adds overhead to both sides of the connection.

@miles at milestails dot com

"The PECL ext really needs revising to comply with the libssh2 1.2+ library."

for example?

I just took the hand over the ssh2 extension so I'm catching up with the bugs (some of them could be in libssh2).

I'm not sure yet how to make the ssh2 stream non blocking after having opening it. It could be tricky. More later in the next 2 weeks (or if one of you have an idea :)

I'm not even sure if stream_set_blocking is the right place to set the blocking consider libssh2 has a 

void libssh2_session_set_blocking(LIBSSH2_SESSION *session, int blocking); 

But then again I thought the stream functions were supposed to be generic for any stream.  Of course if we're calling stream_set_blocking on the ssh2 stream and if it's not aware of what libssh2 expects, maybe that's where the issues.

Of course I am not a C programmer either... maybe I just need to shut my mouth... or learn C...

Of course there is a feature request in the libssh2 queue that I would REALLY like (public key auth from memory - e.g. passed as a variable maybe?)

Closing the issue. Cannot reproduce with recent libssh2 version. Probably solved 
somewhere before 1.2.4.

jl_ewing: stream_set_blocking() calls libssh2_session_set_blocking() for ssh2 
streams.

I'm still seeing this with libssh2 1.4.3 and ssh2 package 0.12.

And as before, the problem does not occur if set_stream_blocking is true.

I recommend for anyone to wrap ssh2 function in a class that uses FABRIC design pattern.

With stream_set_blocking($stream,true); this issue is occurring on with the versions listed below. 

libssh2 Version: 0.18
PHP Version: 5.3.3

Fixed in git

I'm also having this problem.

libssh2/1.8.0
PECL ssh2 1.1.2
PHP 7.1.3
 - on a windows apache server

Using Herzult's php-ssh library from github. First run() is successful but any consecutive run() results in "Warning: ssh2_exec(): Unable to request a channel from remote host"

I can't send any more than one command per-session. It works if I create a new session for every command but that defeats the purpose of the script for me. I'm trying to use it for Cisco routers and that requires entering various commands before the command you want to run, so they have to be entered into the same session.

Curiously.. I'm also having problems with phpseclib but it's not the same error so probably just coincidental. The buffer intermittently returns no data, expected sentences sometimes cut off mid-way.
EG: If I write() the command "show run interface gig1/0/10" a var_dump of the buffer shows just "show ru". That only intermittently, 9/10 times it works just fine.

Either way, it's off to Python for me as these libraries are giving me more grief than desired! :)

libssh2/1.8.0
PECL ssh2 1.1.2
PHP 7.2.9
 - on a windows apache server

First run() is successful but any consecutive run() results in "Warning: ssh2_exec(): Unable to request a channel from remote host"

I can't send any more than one command per-session. It works if I create a new session for every command but that defeats the purpose of the script for me. I'm trying to use it for Cisco routers.

I'm also having problems with phpseclib "Unable to open channel" for subsequent commands while the first one still works.

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