sshd wont start for 15.10

[Thomas Schweikle]

After upgrading to the latest available packages for Ubuntu 15.10 sshd will not start any more. The system aquires an address, but it does not start sshd.

Result: no remote access. On servers this might be fatal, since it might be a headless one and without sshd running access is not possible.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: ssh (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-66.108-generic 3.13.11-ckt27
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-66-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.16
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Oct 21 15:41:42 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-12-12 (1042 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120817.3)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=screen
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: openssh
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2013-02-11 (981 days ago)

[Thomas Schweikle (tps)]

PS: the bug is reported from a 14.04 system, for a 15.10 system. At the moment of writing, the 15.10 system is not accessible any more, because of sshd not running (or no open port for sshd. May be even a firewall problem).

Seen it on:
- 15.04 -- current, stable
- 15.10 -- upcomming

[Thomas Schweikle (tps)]

The problem is related to ignoring "noauto" in fstab. The system tries to mount a nonexisting fd using ufs and fails.

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

You may find it helpful to read "How to report bugs effectively" http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html. Please can you provide steps to reproduce the problem, and then change the bug status back to New?

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