I've seen numerous cases of this all over the internet, and the solution is (optionally: Do _____ and then) reboot. The reboot is the only necessary step, but I'd like to remove that step (find the root of the problem). Here are the symptoms:
- When I open Terminal.app, I see nothing except a cursor. No error text.
- When SSHing, I get
Timeout, server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx not responding
after a delay. - There are a lot of
sshd
processes running in activity monitor (over 30). Killing them does nothing. - Rebooting fixes it, but restarting Terminal.app does not.
- Restarting Remote Login in System Prefs does nothing.
- Console log shows nothing of significance when I open a new terminal.
I'm just looking for ideas. I know this isn't much to work with, but maybe someone has a brilliant idea of where to look. I know that this will be helpful to future users as I've seen many people with the problem:
- http://hintsforums.macworld.com/showthread.php?t=97005
- https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2204986?start=0&tstart=0
- https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2498920?start=0&tstart=0
- http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1090825
- http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10399809-263.html
Thanks!