[YLUG] Dead Box (Can Ping, no ssh?)

[Roger Leigh]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 05:27:05PM +0000, Alex Smith wrote:
> Box pings. No ssh. Rebooted, and it didn't fix.
>
> Output of ssh -v <server> is:
>
> OpenSSH_3.6.1p2, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090701f
> <snip>
> debug1: Authentications that can continue:
> publickey,password,keyboard-interactive
> debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
> debug1: Offering agent key: /home/ajsmith/.ssh/id_dsa
> debug1: Server accepts key: pkalg ssh-dss blen 434 lastkey 0x95db230 hint -1
> debug1: Authentication succeeded (publickey).
> debug1: channel 0: new [client-session]
> debug1: Entering interactive session.
>
> Any idea where to go from here, short of consoling it? :(

Maybe you ran out of PTYs?  Check /dev/pts and the current usage in
/proc/sys/kernel/pty/nr and maximum in /proc/sys/kernel/pty/max.


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