Scp stalled

humbletech99 · 10-25-2006, 12:06 PM

I have been trying to sftp and scp something from home for hours without luck. I am connecting to my ssh server which has a file available on it that I am pulling to my local machine. It takes me 15 seconds to log in via ssh using ssh keys that I have set up, but it works and I can issue commands etc... but whenever I try to pull anything, even something tiny like .bashrc it seems to stall and hang for ages.

Code:

somefile                          0% 4096     0.0KB/s - stalled -
somefile                          0% 4096     0.0KB/s - stalled -
somefile                          0% 4096     0.0KB/s - stalled -

Nothing at all happens, the above is all I see after leaving it for half an hour trying to pull one 3-4Mb file.

I know the connection is slow, but surely it must still work if I can log in a issue commands normally etc.

Why does it keep stalling?

mrkirkland · 10-25-2006, 12:17 PM

try using the verbose option to see if that gives any clues
scp -vv

humbletech99 · 10-25-2006, 12:29 PM

UPDATE: After about 1.5-2hours of leaving it running it now says

Code:

somefile                          1%   80KB   0.0KB/s - stalled -