Cannot ssh to the Solaris 11.4 server (Doc ID 2722938.1)

Last updated on OCTOBER 26, 2020

Applies to:

Symptoms

 Login prompt to Solaris 11.4 server via ssh never comes or comes very late.

ssh -vvv <ip address of server> or

even from ssh server itself, if you do :

ssh -vvv localhost

It hangs at below point:

$ ssh -vvv localhost
OpenSSH_7.7p1, OpenSSL 1.0.2t  10 Sep 2019
debug3: Loaded libcrypto is not FIPS capable.
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug2: resolving "localhost" port 22
debug2: ssh_connect_direct: needpriv 0
debug1: Connecting to localhost [::1] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /export/home/jack/.ssh/id_rsa type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /export/home/jack/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /export/home/jack/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /export/home/jack/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /export/home/jack/.ssh/id_ecdsa type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /export/home/jack/.ssh/id_ecdsa-cert type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /export/home/jack/.ssh/id_ed25519 type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /export/home/jack/.ssh/id_ed25519-cert type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /export/home/jack/.ssh/id_xmss type -1
debug1: key_load_public: No such file or directory
debug1: identity file /export/home/jack/.ssh/id_xmss-cert type -1
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_7.7
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_7.7
debug1: match: OpenSSH_7.7  pat OpenSSH* compat 0x04000000
debug2: fd 4 setting O_NONBLOCK
debug1: Authenticating to localhost:22 as 'jack'
debug3: Trying to reverse map address ::1.

There is a pause of at least 90 seconds here . Then it continues ahead :

debug1: Unspecified GSS failure.  Minor code may provide more information
No Kerberos credentials available (default cache: FILE:/tmp/volatile-user/100/krb5cc_100)

debug1: Unspecified GSS failure.  Minor code may provide more information
No Kerberos credentials available (default cache: FILE:/tmp/volatile-user/100/krb5cc_100)
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Then there is another pause and you may not get login prompt at all and then it says at the end or after a while, it gives login prompt, if one is lucky:

Connection reset.

Changes

Cause

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