SSH hangs

[Nils Kassube]

Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> I've had this happen using my OS X system and Ubuntu system.
>
> I'll ssh in, can forward X applications, etc., but as soon as I type
> "exit" to close the session, it just seems to hang. I can only finally
> cut it off by opening another terminal and using kill on the "local"
> ssh process.
>
> What causes this?  Anyone else run into it?

Probably you started some KDE programs on the remote machine. KDE starts 
some daemons which are still running when you try to logout, but logout 
is stalled until those daemons are stopped. You could kill those 
processes on the remote machine before you logout.


Nils