Re: [Mingw-users] ssh will sometimes hang after a few seconds

[JonY <10...@gm...>]

On 1/3/2009 06:45, Tor Arvid Lund wrote:
> [Trying this repost, since I suspect the first didn't make it to the list]
>
> Hello.
>
> I am running msys on a Vista 64 box, and sometimes when I try to ssh
> to my Ubuntu box, ssh will hang after a few seconds. I'll be typing
> text in the terminal window, and everything just stops... ctrl-c does
> not work, but if I manage to kill the bash process on the Ubuntu box
> manually, my msys window will return me to bash locally. So somehow,
> it seems ssh-related to me...
>
> I tried googling it, to no avail, so I thought I'd check if anyone has
> experienced this problem, and if maybe a solution exists...
>
> Rebooting the Vista box usually fixes the problem for a few
> hours/days, but if/when it re-occurs, it seems to continue until the
> next time I reboot. I am running the msys version that is supplied
> with msysgit (basically an installer that bundles msys and the git scm
> software). After noticing this problem, I tried upgrading some of the
> msys files (the msys dll v 1.0.11, current versions of openssl and
> openssh), but it did not make the problem go away...
>
> What can I do to debug, or otherwise provide useful feedback to you on
> this issue? I have admin privileges on both the Vista and Ubuntu
> boxes, but I don't quite know where to start. Help is much
> appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Tor Arvid Lund
>

Hi,
have you tried using ssh without rxvt?

If it still does not work, you may want to try putty, maybe its an issue 
with MSYS ssh.