Could not load host key

[Steve VanDevender]

Jim Seymour writes:
 > Hi All,
 > 
 > So I tried to upgrade to 2.5.2p2 today.  Got this when I stopped/started
 > sshd:
 > 
 >     Disabling protocol version 2. Could not load host key
 > 
 > Re-installed 2.3.0p1 and all was well again.
 > 
 > This look familiar to anybody?

You need to update your sshd_config with the pathnames of the various
host keys it needs.  See the default config file created in your OpenSSH
build.  You may also need to create additional host keys (specifically
the SSH2 RSA key).