> -----Original Message----- > From: Henry S. Thompson > Sent: Friday, April 1, 2022 5:21 AM > > Jim Garrison via Cygwin writes: > > > My Cygwin ssh client stopped working... It would successfully connect to > > the remote (Debian) host but then hang without displaying the command > > prompt. See debug output attached, as well as cygcheck output. > > > > I decided to run setup to see if there was a newer version of openssh. > > In preparation for that I always terminate all Cygwin processes because > > they will interfere with the update. I killed the ssh-agent process and > > on a whim decided to try connecting again. This time it worked. > > > > This would seem to indicate something in ssh-agent is interfering with > > the connection. There are no credentials loaded into ssh-agent. > > There are reports out there of ssh-agent getting stuck: just out of > curiousity if this happens again, check to see if ssh-agent is using > 100% of a CPU. If so then search for "ssh-agent" "100% CPU" to see > what the likely culprits are.
I did not find much with that search. I found https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2010-January/183237.html but the issue description and resolution was useless. Do you have certain search results in mind? This happens to me several times a month - on multiple systems. Note this started within the past 3 years. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
