I am logging into a sshd that is experiencing these problems right now. Is it possible that it is (again) related to some dbus stuff (I used to have bugreports on dbus (restarting it) making x server or displaymanager or something go ballistic and eat all cpu and such stuff) this is currently in my logs on the machine (42.1) ssh client (putty) log: (current delay: access granted delta to started shell command) 2016-05-31 17:17:39 Initialised AES-256 SDCTR client->server encryption 2016-05-31 17:17:39 Initialised HMAC-SHA-256 client->server MAC algorithm 2016-05-31 17:17:39 Initialised AES-256 SDCTR server->client encryption 2016-05-31 17:17:39 Initialised HMAC-SHA-256 server->client MAC algorithm 2016-05-31 17:17:42 Attempting keyboard-interactive authentication 2016-05-31 17:17:45 Access granted 2016-05-31 17:17:45 Initiating key re-exchange (enabling delayed compression) 2016-05-31 17:17:45 Opening session as main channel 2016-05-31 17:18:10 Server supports delayed compression; will try this later 2016-05-31 17:18:10 Doing ECDH key exchange with curve Curve25519 and hash SHA-256 2016-05-31 17:18:11 Initialised AES-256 SDCTR client->server encryption 2016-05-31 17:18:11 Initialised HMAC-SHA-256 client->server MAC algorithm 2016-05-31 17:18:11 Initialised zlib (RFC1950) compression 2016-05-31 17:18:11 Initialised AES-256 SDCTR server->client encryption 2016-05-31 17:18:11 Initialised HMAC-SHA-256 server->client MAC algorithm 2016-05-31 17:18:11 Initialised zlib (RFC1950) decompression 2016-05-31 17:18:11 Opened main channel 2016-05-31 17:18:11 Allocated pty (ospeed 38400bps, ispeed 38400bps) 2016-05-31 17:18:11 Started a shell/command journalctl: May 31 17:17:33 tux01 sshd[4463]: Accepted keyboard-interactive/pam for testuser from myip port 4369 ssh2 May 31 17:17:33 tux01 sshd[4463]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user testuser by (uid=0) May 31 17:17:33 tux01 dbus[5910]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.login1' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.login1.service' May 31 17:17:33 tux01 systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit logrotate.timer, ignoring: Unit logrotate.timer failed to load: No such file or directory. May 31 17:17:58 tux01 sshd[4463]: pam_systemd(sshd:session): Failed to create session: Connection timed out May 31 17:17:58 tux01 dbus[5910]: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.login1': timed out May 31 17:18:05 tux01 su[4501]: (to root) testuser on pts/0 May 31 17:18:05 tux01 su[4501]: pam_unix(su-l:session): session opened for user root by testuser(uid=1000) May 31 17:18:05 tux01 dbus[5910]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.login1' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.login1.service' May 31 17:18:05 tux01 systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit logrotate.timer, ignoring: Unit logrotate.timer failed to load: No such file or directory. May 31 17:18:30 tux01 su[4501]: pam_systemd(su-l:session): Failed to create session: Connection timed out May 31 17:18:30 tux01 dbus[5910]: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.login1': timed out the su- command took about the same amount of time to succeed. Also this machine has been updated (zypper up) some days ago and I think there were some systemd and other updates. I really think that there is some services depending on each other or not properly (re)started after the zypper up (and I sysctl restart ...... various services that I see via zypper ps). Anyone able to help? Thanks.