On 14/12/2017 04:33 pm, Jack Fearnley wrote:
> I am pleased to discover that there is a newsgroup for Raspberry Pi
> owners.
>
> I received my kit on Monday and it is up and running today.  The system
> looks good with keyboard, mouse and screen attached but I really want to
> use it headless, running through my main desktop (Ubuntu 17.10) under VNC.
>
> Right now I am having trouble with SSH communication either way between
> my main desktop (beta in the hosts listing below) and raspberrypi.
>
> ********************************************************************
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> #127.0.1.1 jack-XPS-8910
> #127.0.1.1       jack
> 127.0.1.1       beta
> 192.168.0.100   alpha
> 192.168.0.101   beta
> 192.168.0.102   gamma
> 192.168.0.104   raspberrypi
> # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
> ::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
> fe00::0 ip6-localnet
> ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
> ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
> ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
>
> *********************************************************************
>
> The raspberry pi is on a wifi connection called raspberry and beta is a
> wired connection.
>
> I can ping successfully in both directions.
>
> when I attempt ssh as follows:
>
> jack@beta:~$ ssh pi@192.168.0.104
> pi@192.168.0.104's password:
>
> I enter the password and the terminal freezes.
>
> I get exactly the same result in the other direction.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Best Regards,
>               Jack Fearnley
>

Have you checked for an 'exit' command in /etc/bash_profile and
~/.profile or ~/.bashrc



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Chris Elvidge, England

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