bzr was working; now can't co -- error: "ConnectionReset reading response for 'BzrDir.open_2.1', retrying" ?

[h15234 at mailas.com]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015, at 11:29 AM, Richard Wilbur wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 9:27 AM,  <h15234 at mailas.com> wrote:
> > Hadn't realized that I needed to check the ssh comms; thoug[ht] that bzr's output would 'tell me' more clearly.  Noted for future ref.
> >
> > Found a non-ascii garbage character in the IdentityFile path in ssh_config for *.launchpad.net -- on multiple machines.
> 
> Not sure how much more specific (or helpful) the bzr error messages
> could be in a case like this.  Does OpenSSH tell us much except that
> we failed to read what we wanted?  How could we provide more useful
> error messages?

In my OP, the last line of output prior to the errors was

0.134  ssh implementation is OpenSSH

fwiw, that did NOT lead me to suspect OpenSSH, but rather something 'after'.

since it was clear, apparently, to others that it WAS openssh-related, perhaps I should've know better.

once I did look at the detailed SSH output, testing an SSH-session, NOT the bzr-session, then I was able to figure out where the problem was.

so, simply from my perspective, knowing more clearly that the problem was in the ssh communication, and that the way to track it down was by testing the ssh connection would have been, in this case, 'more useful'.

hth