SSH: Connection refused directly after LibreELEC installation

rheinFrohnatur · October 14, 2016 at 11:03 AM

Hi all,

I just got my Pi3 and installed LibreELEC via the LibreELEC USB-SD Creator tool, which worked absolutely fine.

The Pi is pingable in my local network (hooked up via cable) and accessable via smb. However, if I try to connect via SSH (using verbose mode) I get the following error:

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rheinFrohnatur:~ rheinFrohnatur$ ssh -v root@192.168.5.106
OpenSSH_6.2p2, OSSLShim 0.9.8r 8 Dec 2011
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh_config line 20: Applying options for *
debug1: /etc/ssh_config line 102: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to 192.168.5.106 [192.168.5.106] port 22.
debug1: connect to address 192.168.5.106 port 22: Connection refused
ssh: connect to host 192.168.5.106 port 22: Connection refused

Any ideas what I am doing wrong and how I can fix the situation?

Cheers
rheinFrohnatur

**Jocke.Sve** · October 14, 2016 at 11:51 AM

Obvious question:
Have You turned SSH on in Libreelec settings? (settings, Libreelec, services)
Can You ping "192.168.5.106" from Your computer?

rheinFrohnatur · October 14, 2016 at 12:18 PM

Sorry for beeing so stupid, didn't notice I had to turn on SSH.

Now it works like a charm!

my68_ · October 15, 2016 at 5:09 PM

Quote from rheinFrohnatur

Sorry for beeing so stupid, didn't notice I had to turn on SSH.

Now it works like a charm!

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Quote from Jocke.Sve

Obvious question:
Have You turned SSH on in Libreelec settings? (settings, Libreelec, services)
Can You ping "192.168.5.106" from Your computer?

Hi, I have a comparable access problem with ssh turned on:

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ssh root@192.168.2.200
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@    WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!     @
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!
Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)!
It is also possible that a host key has just been changed.
The fingerprint for the ECDSA key sent by the remote host is
SHA256:S7xHMtP6zncwqzwySP9HeAAUpAgHDr7JAkskUxn4dkU.
Please contact your system administrator.
Add correct host key in /root/.ssh/known_hosts to get rid of this message.
Offending ECDSA key in /root/.ssh/known_hosts:4
  remove with:
  ssh-keygen -f "/root/.ssh/known_hosts" -R 192.168.2.200
ECDSA host key for 192.168.2.200 has changed and you have requested strict checking.
Host key verification failed.

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I could access before, but after a new install I do not get in.
Any hints?

**lrusak** · October 15, 2016 at 6:10 PM Official Post

They key has changed, (most likely because the ip address has changed.

Just remove the offending key in ~/.ssh/known_hosts like it says to do. This file will be on the computer you are SSHing from, not the LibreELEC device.

my68_ · October 15, 2016 at 6:25 PM

At the end easy:

I helped myself and solved it by just

disable ssh on the raspi
enable ssh on the raspi

Strange, but at the end it worked for me.