Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (321 mails)

[chu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Eugene Chu)]

Kevin Bartz wrote:

>the "password" prompt
>takes about 10 seconds to appear after I enter my login. After I enter my
>password, everything's fine and works at a comparable speed. Even the login
>prompt appears quickly after I ssh in. It's just the password prompt that's
>now taking forever to appear.

I just started to have this problem as well as right after I installed the
latest patches on my SLES 8 system using YOU.  I have a slight twist to
the problem:  My system has 2 Opteron 244 CPUs on a MSI K8D Master board
with two 100/1000 ethernet ports.  I am using both ports right now; one
is connected to a 100 Mb/s network switch, and the other is connected to
a 1000 Mb/s network switch, each on a separate network, and the server
is not configured as a router.  In my case, the ssh login delay is on
the port configured for 1000 Mb/s (Gig), and the delay varies from 10
seconds to a couple of minutes, and I haven't been able to correlate
them to any other events on the ssytem.  The ssh logins to the 100 Mb/s
port is normal, as are other types of connections like rsh, rlogin, rcp,
or ftp to both ports.  Also, the data rates I get out of the Gig link
is what I expect, so it's not a network problem.  It's just the initial
ssh connection that has a delay.  If I use the verbose mode for ssh to
connect from another host, I see where it gets stuck:

debug: SshAppCommon/sshappcommon.c:138/ssh_app_get_global_regex_context: Allocating global SshRegex context.
debug: SshConfig/sshconfig.c:2764/ssh2_parse_config_ext: Version not found on first line, assuming configuration to be old style.
debug: SshConfig/sshconfig.c:622/ssh_config_set_param_verbose: Setting variable 'VerboseMode' to 'FALSE'.
debug: SshConfig/sshconfig.c:2704/ssh2_parse_config_ext: Unable to open /home/chu/.ssh2/ssh2_config
debug: Connecting to cumae-ge, port 22... (SOCKS not used)
debug: Ssh2/ssh2.c:2297/main: Entering event loop.
debug: Ssh2Client/sshclient.c:1421/ssh_client_wrap: Creating transport protocol.
debug: SshAuthMethodClient/sshauthmethodc.c:85/ssh_client_authentication_initialize: Added "publickey" to usable methods.
debug: SshAuthMethodClient/sshauthmethodc.c:85/ssh_client_authentication_initialize: Added "password" to usable methods.
debug: Ssh2Client/sshclient.c:1462/ssh_client_wrap: Creating userauth protocol.
debug: client supports 2 auth methods: 'publickey,password'
debug: Ssh2Common/sshcommon.c:530/ssh_common_wrap: local ip = 198.168.33.80, local port = 48747
debug: Ssh2Common/sshcommon.c:532/ssh_common_wrap: remote ip = 198.168.33.81, remote port = 22
debug: SshConnection/sshconn.c:1945/ssh_conn_wrap: Wrapping...
debug: SshReadLine/sshreadline.c:2414/ssh_readline_eloop_initialize: Initializing ReadLine...

...delay occurs here...

then it goes on.

I would really appreciate any insight to this problem.

thanks,
eyc