Google-chrome – ChromeOS: kill a hung ssh session

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I have a hung crosh terminal. I was in a ssh session and the wireless connection dropped. The screen froze. Normally, I open an other one, ssh into the remote machine again, and kill the sshd, and that clears it. However, the sshd on the remote machine closed itself overnight and now the crosh terminal is hung, thinking it's still connected.

What's the best way to kill the crosh terminal? Is there a magic key combo?

Sidenote: Couldn't create tags for crosh, chromeos

Note that I am not using the machine in developer mode.

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If you're in developer mode, you can open a shell and kill the ssh process.

kill `ps -u chronos | grep ssh | cut --characters=1-6`

(Assuming you only have 1 ssh session open)

This is nicer than closing the window if you're using panelize and want to keep a shell panel open.

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This may or may not apply, but I'm putting it out there because my issue is similar, and I found a workaround.

For connections going into my Mac (such as SSH), I was experiencing lag/latency. For example, I would type into the shell (command line), and my keystrokes would not appear until maybe 200 to 600 milliseconds later, and they'd all come through in a burst. This happened all the time, and was infuriating.

In this forum thread, I read that

[Apple/OSX is] powering down the wireless between packets

Eventually, I came around to using this as a solution (run this on the same client computer that you are SSHing from):

ssh username@macservername 'while true; do echo -n .; sleep 0.1; done' > /dev/null

This establishes a constant stream of bytes flowing through the network connection from client to Mac, tricking the Mac into not putting the wifi to sleep.

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