ssh to my machine returns: Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer

[Gregory Piñero]

On 8/22/06, Gregory Piñero <gregpinero at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/22/06, Benjamin Zeller <zeller at ibh-wor.de> wrote:
> >
> > Do a "ssh -vvv localhost"
> >
> Here's what I get:
>
> chiefinnovator at MAIN1:~$ ssh -vvv localhost
> OpenSSH_4.2p1 Debian-7ubuntu3, OpenSSL 0.9.8a 11 Oct 2005
> debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
> debug1: Applying options for *
> debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0
> debug1: Connecting to localhost [127.0.0.1] port 22.
> debug1: Connection established.
> debug1: identity file /home/chiefinnovator/.ssh/identity type -1
> debug1: identity file /home/chiefinnovator/.ssh/id_rsa type -1
> debug1: identity file /home/chiefinnovator/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
> debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version
> OpenSSH_4.2p1 Debian-7ubuntu3
> debug1: match: OpenSSH_4.2p1 Debian-7ubuntu3 pat OpenSSH*
> debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
> debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.2p1 Debian-7ubuntu3
> debug2: fd 3 setting O_NONBLOCK
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
> Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer
>

The last few days my whole computer has been acting really flaky.  For
example a couple of Gnome programs warn me that they have to shut
down, half the the computer doesn't reboot or reports filesystem
errors.

So I'm thinking there's some kind of file system cause for this ssh
problem?  I'm going to try doing a restore from a disk image taken a
few weeks ago.

-Greg