What would cause keyboard-interactive packet connection close

[Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET]

> 
> Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote:
> 
> > 	I've got a remote system that was down and came back up. I'm
> > trying to get into the system, but when I do I get timed out. I
> > forced it to a keyboard interactive to speed things up:
> > 
> > ssh -o PreferredAuthentications=keyboard-interactive -vvv tuc at 10.2.0.2
> [...]
> > debug2: we sent a keyboard-interactive packet, wait for reply
> > Connection closed by 10.2.0.2
> > debug1: Calling cleanup 0x804c158(0x0)
> > 
> > 
> > 	What would make it close at that point?
> 
> If the server is a Linux box with a somewhat dated glibc, possibly a bug 
> in that:
> 
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=111045930530623&w=2
> 
> Failing that, mentioning what kind of system the server is and what 
> version of OpenSSH it's running is more likely to get some help.
> 
	FreeBSD 5.X (I don't remember off hand) and it identifies
as :

OpenSSH_3.5p1 FreeBSD-20030924, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090704f

	The server either locked up, crashed, or something and was
unresponsive for quite some time. A power failure rebooted it and it
seems to be running, running MRTG, Apache, and sendmail (Though, I
haven't gotten its daily emails for some reason). I get SSH to answer
and all the way to it sending the packet for keyboard interactive and
then the connection closes. It *DOES* pause for a bit at 

debug1: service_accept: ssh-userauth
debug1: got SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT

	before continuing.....

		Thanks, Tuc