restarting sshd clears up problem. Why?
After various upgrades an installs, I found I couldn't get onto my
system via ssh. There was no record of my attempts on the logs, as far
as I could tell.
When nothing else worked, I shut down ssh and started it in debug mode.
At least from localhost, I could then get on. I restarted it via the
init script, and it's still working (at least from localhost).
Why did this happen?
Notable upgrades or installations before this happened:
fail2ban (rewrites iptables rules after failed ssh logins; my attention
initially focused there)
libc6 from unstable pulled onto my mostly stable system when I got some
other libs from unstable.
All relevant sarge security upgrades (because of a goof I hadn't been
picking them up).
dirmngr (certificate manager)
So among ssh's immediate dependents, I upgraded libc6 and zlibg1g.
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