Remote access problems

Jan 12, 2018 1 Replies
J

I now have my RPi installed as a headless server with .Remote Desktop Viewer' providing the VNC connection. This workes as advertised and I am quite happy with it.



A problem arises when I try to SSH between the RPi and the other two computers on my LAN. SSH between the other two presents no problems.



When I try to SSH the RPi it asks for a password which I enter and then it freezes. No input is possible and control C does not escape the situation. The same thing happens when I SSH from the RPi screen.



I thought perhaps the SSH service had not started so a ran 'sudo service ssh start' but still had the same problem.



I'm probably missing something obvious??



Best Regards, Jack Fearnley



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P

To see if the problem is an ssh one, when you ssh from another system turn on verbose mode: $ ssh -v -v -v pi@systemname (Each -v causes more verbose messages.)

My suspicion is that something in your login profile is hanging the session at login time, probably you're starting a program in your .bashrc which is just stopping the login process. From a terminal on your Pi, try running: $ bash -l -x and see where the list of login code stops. That's probably where you're hanging.

Cheers, Paul

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