Bug#978955: last update disables socket activation

Control: reassign -1 systemd

On Sun, Jan 03, 2021 at 10:29:27AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 01, 2021 at 11:21:31AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 01, 2021 at 06:59:42AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > > with this last update of the Debian package,
> > > unstable systems that are using socket activated
> > > ssh lose ssh access (connection refused).
> > > 
> > > It ie nscessary to do systemctl stop ssh.service,
> > > systemctl start ssh.socket to be able to log in again.
> > 
> > What exactly was the previous version that worked?  1:8.4p1-3 didn't go
> > anywhere near any of the machinery for socket activation (it only
> > involved a small fix to the ssh-copy-id shell script), so it's hard to
> > see what could possibly have gone wrong there.
> > 
> > Is it possible you upgraded some other piece of systemd-related
> > machinery at around the same time?
> 
> ok, this is interesting. While this has rendered _all_ my unstable
> installations inaccessible via ssh, I have taken a closer look on the
> most simple machine, and have found out openssh didn't get upgraded
> during the apt session in question. Last ssh upgrade was on December 05
> when 1:8.4p1-3 replaced 1:8.4p1-2.
> 
> However there was a systemd upgrade from 247.2-2 to 247.2-3.
> 
> I have saved the dpkg log in question. If there is anything more I can
> do to help, please let me know.

I'll reassign this to systemd and see if they can work it out.

Thanks,