[Discuss] ssh issue

[jdm at moylan.us (dan moylan)]

jbk at kjkelra.com wrote:
>On 6/20/24 21:05, dan moylan wrote:
>> jbk at kjkelra.com wrote:
>>
>>> On 6/20/24 15:44, dan moylan wrote:
>>>> i have two computers running on my home asus router network:
>>>> cmp1, cmp2, both running fc40.  cmp2 had been sshed into
>>>> cmp1 since yesterday with no issues, but then cmp2's
>>>> terminal locked up; neither ctl-c nor ctl-z had any effect,
>>>> and eventually i closed the tab.  ifconfig gave normal
>>>> output on both cmp1 and cmp2.  both were able to ping each
>>>> other as well as mit.edu.
>>>>
>>>> puzzled, i blanked out .ssh/known_hosts on cmp2 and tried:
>>>>
>>>> ssh moylan at cmp1
>>>>
>>>> asked if i really wanted to connect, i said yes, and then
>>>> was asked for  moylan's password.  an incorrect password
>>>> prompted a second request followed by a correct password.
>>>> the window then locked up.
>>>>
>>>> any suggestions as to what i should do?
>>> So you say this happened right after an update.
>> actually no, i never mentioned update.  it just happened,
>> out of the blue.

> Yes, i agree you never mentioned updates, but I knew that
> was a factor with F40 since updates occur every other day.
> So do you have auto-updates enabled by choice? I have auto
> download enabled but not install because I want to read
> what's being updated just to hopefully be prepared that I
> might have to reboot.
> Another thing you can do is see if the command:
> systemctl daemon-reload
> fixes things, doesn't always but may save an inconvenient
> reboot.

>>> I might suggest you restore knownhosts and reboot. No you
>>> don't have to reboot after all updates but when things don't
>>> work soon after such I find reboots have solved the issue.
>> well i did reboot, and the problem went away.  should have
>> tried that without being prompted.

sorry, i know nothing about auto-updates or auto-download,
not being much of a sysadmin, just a linux user (since
1992).  i upgrade every sunday (without reboot) when i wind
my clocks.  now i'll add reboot to my upgrade script and
hope for the best.

thanks again,
ole dan


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