sshd: Service exited with abnormal code: 255

[corbinmharris]

After upgrading our MacMini to OS X 10.10.2 and JSS 9.65, I've been getting this error every couple of days -

3/18/15 11:30:22.982 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.openssh.sshd.00CBF727-F8C5-4B48-BE40-23DC07D66CE3[72382]) Service exited with abnormal code: 255

I've googled the error and it seems to reported with various flavors of *unix, but haven't located a "fix". Anyone else see this problem on their OS X server or know of a possible fix?

Thanks!

Corbin

[corbinmharris]

I forgot to mention that restarting Tomcat usually fixes the issue.

Thanks!

Corbin

[megan_dillard]

I upgraded to 10.10.3 JSS 9.65 and I am now getting this same error, but mine is constant. Know of a fix yet?? I've restarted Tomcat and it did nothing. I'm having trouble getting mysql to start back up too.

[andreas_frey]

Corbin/Megan,
Did either of you ever get to the bottom of this? I'm currently getting the same thing on 10.11.6 JSS 9.92.
Thanks,
Andreas

[mlavine]

Anyone ever figure this out?

[RobbieReichard]

I had a similar issue and I found out that the /var/empty folder had the wrong owner. I ran " sudo chown root /var/empty " and it resolved the issue.
This will also fix the issue ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer.