Re: sshd closing connection on reception of username

Thanks for the reply. A manual power cycle ended up doing the trick. 
Looking through /var/log/messages I see a lot of messages (much more 
than normal) from Shorewall (a firewall managing iptables) before the 
power cycle and none afterward. I think the problem was shorewall 
becoming misconfigured and cutting off ssh connections, rather than 
anything with sshd.

Peter

Darren Tucker wrote:

> Peter Robinett wrote:
>
> > Anyway, here's my problem and hopefully someone might have a clue 
> > what's going on: I was logged in to a linux box (Mandrake 10.0) when 
> > my wireless internet connection on my client machine died. Now when I 
> > try to ssh to the server it fails. The attached output.txt file shows 
> > what happens.
>
>
> The interesting messages will be in the server's debug output.  See 
> http://www.snailbook.com/faq/general-debugging.auto.html
>
> > Note: I was installing some dependencies of apache2, so I guess it's 
> > conceivable that that messed up the machine when my connection was 
> > broken.
>
>
> I would guess that you installed a different version of OpenSSL that 
> what sshd is linked with.