connect to host localhost port 22: Connection refused

Question

While installing hadoop in my local machine , i got following error

ssh -vvv localhost 
OpenSSH_5.5p1, OpenSSL 1.0.0e-fips 6 Sep 2011 
debug1: Reading configura         


        

Answer 1

Check if this port is open. Maybe your SSH demon is not running. See if sshd is running. If not, then start it.

Answer 2

You may should edit your /etc/hosts. For example if my hostname is ub0, but the hostname in /etc/hosts is localhost, it may occur

connect to host ub0 port 22: Connection refused

Because the hostname in /etc/hosts is localhost not ub0.

So, you should be careful the hostname when building up distributed clusters.

Answer 3

Check file /etc/ssh/sshd_config for Port number. Make sure it is 22.

Answer 4

1. Remove SSH with the following command:

   sudo apt-get remove openssh-client openssh-server
   

2. Install SSH again with:

   sudo apt-get install openssh-client openssh-server
   

It will solve your problem.