What could cause rsync to kill ssh?

Albert Croft acroft at cyber-wizard.com
Sat Jun 3 16:52:56 UTC 2023


Maurice,

You say, "knocking my ssh session offline on all terminals and it blocks 
ssh from being able to connect again. Even restarting sshd doesn't help".

Questions:
* Is the network stack on the affected machine still active? (Can it 
reach other services or systems on the network?)
* If the network is NOT reachable, does restarting the network stack 
make a difference?

I ask because I intermittently see what seems to be a similar 
behavior--rsync client (3.2.7) to a remote system with rsync (3.2.3) and 
a 5.11.x linux kernel that occasionally terminates with the linux system 
losing access to the network where restarting the network stack doesn't 
seem to restore access and requires a reboot of the linux system in 
question.

On 6/2/23 10:44 PM, Maurice R Volaski via rsync wrote:
> I have an rsync script that it is copying one computer (over ssh) to a 
> shared CIFS mount on Gentoo Linux, kernel 6.3.4. The script runs for a 
> while and then at some point quits knocking my ssh session offline on 
> all terminals and it blocks ssh from being able to connect again. Even 
> restarting sshd doesn’t help. Rsync has apparently killed it. I have to 
> reboot.
> 
> 



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