SSH in and out of host produces bad packet length on fresh build

[Sean Mahrt]

This one may be a needle in the haystack, but 1 of three hosts built with Karmic (one ubuntu straight, two mythbuntu) is giving me fits of bad packet length.

The one driving me crazy is attached (Via 1GHz i386 with Mythbuntu 9.10). tried rebuilding ssh keys and even reinstalled...

Not sure if this is a repeatable bug on other systems, but out of the box broken sounded like something to fire to the experts. can vnc in, so have local access.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Dec 19 15:06:52 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Mythbuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.4)
Package: ssh (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.53-generic
SourcePackage: openssh
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1334): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (xfce4-terminal:16835): Terminal-WARNING **: Unable to load terminal preferences.

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

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[jokker (david-las-solanas)]

Hi,

When I ssh a solaris 8 server from Ubuntu 10.04 I get:

Bad packet length 1783261441.
Disconnecting: Packet corrupt

It works from any other ssh client I tried on Debian. Seems to be a bug from ubuntu side, ssh client or even ssl.

ssh -vv gives me:

OpenSSH_5.3p1 Debian-3ubuntu4, OpenSSL 0.9.8k 25 Mar 2009
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Applying options for *
debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0
debug1: Connecting to 144.165.11.89 [144.165.11.89] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /home/david/.ssh/identity type -1
debug1: identity file /home/david/.ssh/id_rsa type -1
debug1: identity file /home/david/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_4.4
debug1: match: OpenSSH_4.4 pat OpenSSH_4*
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.3p1 Debian-3ubuntu4
debug2: fd 3 setting O_NONBLOCK
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1,diffie-hellman-group14-sha1,diffie-hellman-group1-sha1
debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: ssh-rsa,ssh-dss
debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,arcfour256,arcfour128,aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128-cbc,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc,arcfour,<email address hidden>
debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,arcfour256,arcfour128,aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128-cbc,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc,arcfour,<email address hidden>
debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: hmac-md5,hmac-sha1,<email address hidden>,hmac-ripemd160,<email address hidden>,hmac-sha1-96,hmac-md5-96
debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: hmac-md5,hmac-sha1,<email address hidden>,hmac-ripemd160,<email address hidden>,hmac-sha1-96,hmac-md5-96
debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: none,<email address hidden>,zlib
debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: none,<email address hidden>,zlib
debug2: kex_parse_kexinit:
debug2: kex_parse_kexinit:
debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: first_kex_follows 0
debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: reserved 0
debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1,diffie-hellman-group14-sha1,diffie-hellman-group1-sha1
debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: ssh-rsa,ssh-dss
debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: aes256-cbc,aes256-ctr
debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: aes256-cbc,aes256-ctr
debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: hmac-md5,hmac-sha1,hmac-ripemd160,<email address hidden>,hmac-sha1-96,hmac-md5-96
debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: hmac-md5,hmac-sha1,hmac-ripemd160,<email address hidden>,hmac-sha1-96,hmac-md5-96
debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: none,<email address hidden>
debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: none,<email address hidden>
debug2: kex_parse_kexinit:
debug2: kex_parse_kexinit:
debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: first_kex_follows 0
debug2: kex_parse_kexinit: reserved 0
debug2: mac_setup: found hmac-md5
debug1: kex: server->client aes256-ctr hmac-md5 none
debug2: mac_setup: found hmac-md5
debug1: kex: client->server aes256-ctr hmac-md5 none
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST(1024<4096<8192) sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP
debug2: dh_gen_key: priv key bits set: 279/512
debug2: bits...