7111 2010-12-14 14:53 Error initializing Globus Usage Metrics when hostname is wrong 2010-12-23 16:58:19 1 1 1 Unclassified GSI-OpenSSH GSI-OpenSSH 5.0 PC Linux NEW P3 major --- 1 ballen@ci.uchicago.edu ysvenkat@ncsa.uiuc.edu jbasney@ncsa.uiuc.edu ballen@ci.uchicago.edu 2010-12-14 14:53:57 I changed the hostname on my server before the DNS propagated, and when trying to sign-in I got this on the client: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host and in /var/log/auth.log on the server: fatal: Error initializing Globus Usage Metrics and I was unable to login. If I had not kept an ssh session open I would have been locked out of my server. As soon as DNS propagation finished, verified by using dig on the server, I was able to sign-in again with a new connection. This could be an issue with vanilla ssh, but the error message makes it seem like the cause is a failure in globus usage metrics, which should obviously not be fatal and prevent sign-in. If it really is not a gsissh specific issue, the "fatal" in the log message is very misleading. ysvenkat@ncsa.uiuc.edu 2010-12-23 16:58:19 Committed fixes to both GSI-OpenSSH and MyProxy so any errors encountered with regard to Usage Stats are NON-fatal.