Here's my problem:

I just set up a hadoop cluster at work. Each machine on the cluster has an externally visible IP, so I can ssh into any of them whenever (pretty convenient).

One of the machines, for some reason, whenever I reboot it, sshd apparently doesn't work until somebody logs in locally. In other words, if I reboot the machine remotely then I can't ssh back in (somebody has to log the machine in locally for it to start working).

Looked in /etc/init.d and ssh is in there. Baffled. Anybody see this problem before and have any insight? TIA

7/2/2010 3:23:55 PM

Are the networking services starting on boot? IIRC ubuntu desktop version doesn't start network manager until a user logs in the first time.

7/2/2010 3:31:29 PM

^wireless is that way, but wired LAN connections should come up at boot.

7/3/2010 3:00:29 PM

do you see the same thing happen if you log in to the console without using X? (i.e. runlevel 3)

7/3/2010 7:14:39 PM