Connection closed by remote host

[Matin Tamizi]

I'm having trouble with sshd accepting connections:
$ ssh localhost
Password:
Read from remote host localhost: Connection reset by peer
Connection to localhost closed.

It used to work great, but when my copied my drive to another drive so
I could swap to a larger drive, I started having problems.  I copied
the partitions one by one after booting with a LiveCD.

It could be a permission problem, but I copied using `# cp -pRP`.

I posted moreinformation on the problem at
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=275380

I would appreciate any help.

Many thanks,
Matin