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Re: ssh login ok, no prompt



On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Mathieu Malaterre
<mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 02:38:52PM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>>   I have two linux boxes. I can connect from one to the other but not
>>> the other way around anymore. It seems to have happen after a apt-get
>>> upgrade. I can `ssh target`, however it display the debian banner and
>>> then stops. I cannot Ctrl-Z or Ctrl-C...
>>
>> If it's getting to the point of displaying the banner, but not as far as
>> a prompt, I'd suggest it's a problem in your profile.
>>
>> Try "ssh target /bin/bash" or something like "ssh target hostname" to
>> see if executing an alternate shell works (in the latter case, you're
>> executing 'hostname' as your shell which will print target's hostname
>> and spit your back to your original computer).
>
> I am making some progress
>
> $ ssh hpdesk hostname
> hpdesk
>
> however:
>
> $ ssh -v -v -v mathieu@hpdesk /bin/sh
> debug1: Sending command: /bin/sh
> debug2: channel 0: request exec confirm 1
> debug2: fd 3 setting TCP_NODELAY
> debug2: callback done
> debug2: channel 0: open confirm rwindow 0 rmax 32768
> debug2: channel 0: rcvd adjust 2097152
> debug2: channel_input_status_confirm: type 99 id 0
> debug2: exec request accepted on channel 0
>
> ... and then it stops right here....
>
> Still no login prompt

For anyone interested in the story. All I had to do is remove : .zshrc_history*
There were some junk history files that caused all the above...

bizarre...
-- 
Mathieu


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