Re: How to ssh to a QEMU XFCE desktop vm-image?

[George myglc2 Clemmer <myglc2@gmail.com>]

On 02/26/2018 at 16:51 Chris Marusich writes:

> George myglc2 Clemmer <myglc2@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I have ssh working to a server image ...
>>
>> nemo:~ $ ssh g1@server02.local
>> Last login: Sun Feb 25 22:11:42 2018 from fe80::1ccf:c589:7e5f:a21f%eth0
>>
>> ... but not to a similar xFCE desktop VM image ...
>>
>> nemo:~ $ ssh g1@desktop01.local -vvv
>> OpenSSH_7.6p1, LibreSSL 2.6.2
>> debug1: Reading configuration data /Users/glc/.ssh/config
>> debug1: /Users/glc/.ssh/config line 48: Applying options for *
>> debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
>> debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 48: Applying options for *
>> debug2: ssh_connect_direct: needpriv 0
>> debug1: Connecting to desktop01.local port 22.
>> ssh: connect to host desktop01.local port 22: Connection refused
>
> Could it be that perhaps ssh daemon failed to start?  Several people
> have observed that failure mode, but nobody has been able to reproduce
> it consistently in a VM yet, which has made troubleshooting difficult:
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2018-02/msg00022.html
>
> Check the logs in /var/log/shepherd.log.  If you're suffering from this
> problem, Shepherd will say that it failed to start ssh-daemon.

Thanks, yes that's it. It looks reproducible. I'll report a bug. -
George