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ssh borked after upgrade

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Jethro_UK
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ssh borked after upgrade

#1 Post by Jethro_UK »

With tiresome predictability, the last kernel upgrade has borked my system.

This time it's SSH not starting.

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Executing /etc/init.d/ssh status ..
● ssh.service - OpenBSD Secure Shell server
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/ssh.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2017-12-13 10:46:06 GMT; 2s ago
  Process: 6985 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/sshd -t (code=exited, status=255)

Dec 13 10:46:05 DebServer64 systemd[1]: ssh.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=255
Dec 13 10:46:05 DebServer64 systemd[1]: Failed to start OpenBSD Secure Shell server.
Dec 13 10:46:05 DebServer64 systemd[1]: ssh.service: Unit entered failed state.
Dec 13 10:46:05 DebServer64 systemd[1]: ssh.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Dec 13 10:46:06 DebServer64 systemd[1]: ssh.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Dec 13 10:46:06 DebServer64 systemd[1]: Stopped OpenBSD Secure Shell server.
Dec 13 10:46:06 DebServer64 systemd[1]: ssh.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Dec 13 10:46:06 DebServer64 systemd[1]: Failed to start OpenBSD Secure Shell server.
Dec 13 10:46:06 DebServer64 systemd[1]: ssh.service: Unit entered failed state.
Dec 13 10:46:06 DebServer64 systemd[1]: ssh.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Preliminary googling suggests disabling service "ssh" and enabling "ssh.socket". But now I'm getting SSH errors when I try to connect from clients that had no problem, before.

Anyone ?


p.s. seems startx is ****ed too.

Jethro_UK
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Re: ssh borked after upgrade

#2 Post by Jethro_UK »

OK, getting somewhere.

service "ssh.socket" needs to be disabled

you need to create a directory /run/sshd

you can then start service "ssh" and connect.

And then switch to something which doesn't need 20 minutes of TLC after every kernel upgrade.

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Re: ssh borked after upgrade

#3 Post by Segfault »

Isn't systemd wonderful.

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