Bug#492781: ssh hangs after upgrades
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 01:57:23PM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote:
> With one of the three Unstable boxes I run ssh consistently
> stops working (hangs without giving me a password prompt)
> after an upgrade (via dselect, using the APT method) until
> the system is rebooted.
[...]
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
> debug2: service_accept: ssh-userauth
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
> --- it hangs at this point until I ctrl-c it ---
Looks like that would be inside pubkey_prepare in sshconnect2.c,
probably while trying to communicate with the authentication agent.
Could you get an strace (you can send me it privately if you're worried
about exposing private key material)? As a workaround, unsetting
SSH_AUTH_SOCK might help?
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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