Re: Warning for 13.1 upgrades, SSH restart required before you close session post upgrade

On 5/25/22 02:55, Paul Macdonald wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I've not spotted this in @questions so hopefully this will warn some 
> people
>
> After an upgrade to 13.1, and post reboot, you have to restart the SSH 
> daemon in the current session
>
> otherwise you'll get locked out.
>
> From upgrade notes, which i admit i didn't read
>
> /"After upgrading, sshd (from OpenSSH 8.8p1) will not accept new 
> connections until it is restarted. After installing the new userland, 
> either reboot (as specified in the source update procedure), or 
> execute //|service sshd restart|//."/
>
> I would think something as important as this might have warranted more 
> of an alert
>

Yes, this hit me too on a number of boxes. I had to get remote hands to 
reboot the servers.

Wonder how this got missed, but hey, we're human.

Mark.