I bet the machine is overloaded.. That's why you do not get a shell.. You need to wait to come down ... Not sure if it got hacked .... My 2 cents. Remo On 7/17/09 12:52 PM, "dirk ooms" <dirk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > until this morning I was able to ssh from my ubuntu client to my fedora > core 9 server. suddenly (without any config change on the server or the > client), I couldn't ssh anymore: I could still enter the password, > authentication seems to be ok, but no shell prompt :-( > > so I am wondering what's going on here. since it is difficult to > physically access the machine, I would be very happy to receive a > suggestion for a workaround. > > below is the last part of the ssh -vvv output (I replaced the real > machine name by mymachine.mydomain) > > I can still ssh to other servers from my client. > > cheers, > dirk > > debug1: Next authentication method: password > dirk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx's password: > debug3: packet_send2: adding 64 (len 58 padlen 6 extra_pad 64) > debug2: we sent a password packet, wait for reply > debug1: Authentication succeeded (password). > debug1: channel 0: new [client-session] > debug3: ssh_session2_open: channel_new: 0 > debug2: channel 0: send open > debug1: Entering interactive session. > debug1: channel 0: free: client-session, nchannels 1 > debug3: channel 0: status: The following connections are open: > #0 client-session (t3 r-1 i0/0 o0/0 fd 4/6 cfd -1) > > debug3: channel 0: close_fds r 4 w 6 e 7 c -1 > Read from remote host mymachine.mydomain: Connection reset by peer > Connection to mymachine.mydomain closed. > debug1: Transferred: stdin 0, stdout 0, stderr 110 bytes in 0.0 seconds > debug1: Bytes per second: stdin 0.0, stdout 0.0, stderr 4537.2 > debug1: Exit status -1 > > > > !DSPAM:4a64aee3260209957242535! >