Comment 1 for bug 686224

Thanks for the report.

Just killing the subprocess seems like kind of a big hammer, and one I'd rather not apply until we either know the problem, or we have consciously given up on understanding it.

If you can reproduce this can you please tell us

1- what strace shows that bzr and the child are doing
2- ditto 'ps o pid,wchan $SSH_PID'
3- 'lsof -p $SSH_PID'
4- the C-level backtrace of the child (attach using gdb, etc.)

You may need to run some of them as root to get around current security restrictions.