Again I would look for cpu utilization.. Ciao Remo On 7/21/09 1:30 AM, "dirk ooms" <dirk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello Sharad and others, > > you made my day! i already tried to do ssh as root with the 'reboot' > command, but it didn't work. however when i tried it again with '-T', i > was able to reboot the machine and now i can login again. Still have to > look for the real cause. Anyway, thank you very much! > > dirk > > On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 09:35 +0530, Sharad wrote: >> Do you check if ssh hostname somecommand works or not? Try to run it with >> terminal suppression using -T i.e. ssh -T hostname somecommand. >> >> If that works perhaps something wrong with the terminal allocation on the >> remote side (may they are all utilized? just guessing!) or problem with the >> shell. >> >> Sharad >> --- On Sat, 18/7/09, dirk ooms <dirk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> From: dirk ooms <dirk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> Subject: authenticated, but no prompt >>> To: secureshell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> Date: Saturday, 18 July, 2009, 12:22 AM >>> 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 >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> Yahoo! recommends that you upgrade to the new and safer Internet >> Explorer 8. http://downloads.yahoo.com/in/internetexplorer/ >> > > > !DSPAM:4a65e653312254546315325! >