SSHd wont start after recent update.

[Chaosratt]

paine@pandora:~$ sudo service ssh start
ssh stop/pre-start, process 15726
paine@pandora:~$

But I get "connection refused" from my clients (putty, filezilla, etc)

[CharlesA]

If you have console access, see if you can stop it then start it back up.

[Chaosratt]

A reboot seems to have solved the issue, but I just neutered a pretty good uptime

[CharlesA]

Been there, done that, got a t-shirt.

[Chaosratt]

This problem cropped back up again. I really wish I didn't have to restart the system every time I make an SSH config change, does anyone know whats going on here?

[Chaosratt]

Ok, I've logged in via console and completely purged ssh via "sudo apt-get --purge remove openssh-server" and then reinstalling it, same deal.

Looks like seting up permanent console access via my host isnt the nightmare I thoguht it was going to be, and I can even ssh into the console. I'll just do that for now.

[CharlesA]

After you purge SSH, can you make sure that there is no directory here:

ls -ld /etc/ssh/

I haven't had any problems with SSH and my system is up-to-date.

Which version of Ubuntu are you using?

[inphektion]

This problem cropped back up again. I really wish I didn't have to restart the system every time I make an SSH config change, does anyone know whats going on here?

get console access:

run ps aux | grep ssh
to make sure its all stopped. then try starting it...
run tail -n 50 /var/log/auth.log
anything there?

if not then again make sure all stopped and run sshd -t
does everything validate fine?

if so run ssd -d -e

then try to ssh in.
anything throw up on the screen? if so save to a text file and paste in here.