I have a couple of VMs running on a remote server: one with an older version of Ubuntu, and one running wheezy. I have an ssh tunnel with X forwarding set up so that I can access the machines from my system as localhost (ssh -p 48828 user@localhost and ssh -p 48829 user@localhost). Yesterday I opened Firefox on the Ubuntu box and was dragging the window to move it, when it suddenly disappeared. In my connection terminal the message "write failed, broken pipe" appeared, and the connection to the remote server was gone.
When I tried to reconnect, it took almost 60 seconds for the password prompt to show up. Ever since then this problem occurs from my machine to either of the VMs. I can ssh into the host server and from there ssh into either VM, and I get a password prompt immediately. Today I fired up a VM on my local machine, created the tunnel through the server to one of the remote VMs, and tried to ssh in. The password prompt appeared immediately. In all cases, once I log in everything responds immediately as expected. It is just the login prompt that is a problem. The remote machines all have UseDNS = no set, and everything has worked fine for several months until this problem yesterday. So it looks like the problem is something that has changed on my local machine, but I have no idea what, or where to begin. We have been having intermittent network issues between here and the building that houses the remote server, and that is probably what caused the initial connection loss. But I wouldn't think severing a connection would cause this subsequent problem. Since the server is on a remote VM I don't think I can ssh in and then run the server in the foreground to watch it run, can I? I have checked the logs on both ends, but nothing looks abnormal to me. The only thing I have not tried is rebooting my machine, but that's so windows and probably not necessary. So I've turned to y'all for a clue as to how to troubleshoot this issue. Thanks, Craig -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140123200708.ga10...@prod1.getsouthern.com