Bug#1087627: openssh-client: Session dies (quickly)

Helge Kreutzmann <[email protected]> Sat, 16 Nov 2024 13:42:20 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.ssh
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Hello Colin,
thanks for your ultra fast reply.

Am Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 01:36:16PM +0000 schrieb Colin Watson:
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 01:25:11PM +0000, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> > I'm using ssh a lot, usually having several ssh connections open the
> > entire day.
> > 
> > About a week ago the connections started to terminate quickly, i.e.
> > after a few minutes (I can time this, if this is of any importance).
> > So I return to the ssh client, and on the first key I hit, the session
> > is terminated and I get a message like:
> > 
> > Connection to 142.132.201.35 closed.
> > client_loop: send disconnect: Broken pipe
> > 
> > The (very) bad thing is that the session is not closed ordinarily,
> > e.g. bash_history does not contain the last commands (fortunately I
> > did not have any other data loss so far).
> > 
> > If I work in the ssh session, the the dying is delayed, so it seems
> > like the sssion dies after a certain inactivity time.
> > 
> > But this is very annoying, I'm in the middle of some work, read a man
> > page or a web page just to find out, that the session died, I have to
> > login again, cd to the correct directory etc.
> > 
> > The ssh target configuration is unchanged (running Debian stable) as
> > well.
> > 
> > If you need any further information, I'm glad to provide it.
> 
> I think this is quite likely to be a network-level problem rather than
> anything to do with OpenSSH.  But perhaps running with at least `ssh -v`
> (or `ssh -vvv` if the extra output isn't too annoying) would at least
> get a bit more information.

Ok, I just launched a connection with -vvv (directing stderr to a file, 
so no problem). I'll let it sit until it dies, and then I'll post the
log.

Thanks!

Greetings

          Helge

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