Problem with scp and SSH on Arch Linux

Hello,

I tried to use scp today, and got this weird behaviour:

[stijn@hephaistos ~]$ scp -2 .ssh/id_rsa-olympos2.pub \
stijn@olympos:/home/stijn/.ssh/id_rsa-olympos2.pub
Enter passphrase for key '/home/stijn/.ssh/id_rsa-olympos':
Arch Linux (Duke) 2.6.21.4-cks-server
[stijn@hephaistos ~]$

So I enter the passphrase, get access, but the copy never gets done.

This is in /var/log/auth.log:

Jun 14 22:00:57 olympos sshd[3678]: Accepted publickey for stijn from
192.168.1.2 port 56900 ssh2
Jun 14 22:00:57 olympos sshd(pam_unix)[3680]: session opened for user
stijn by (uid=0)
Jun 14 22:00:57 olympos sshd[3680]: error: channel 0: chan_read_failed
for istate 3
Jun 14 22:00:57 olympos sshd[3680]: error: channel 0: chan_read_failed
for istate 3
Jun 14 22:00:57 olympos sshd(pam_unix)[3680]: session closed for user
stijn


Googling on the "chan_read_failed for istate 3" reveals a lot of links,
but there it seems it is only a 'random' error, and does not affect the
copy action itself. In my case the copying never gets done.

I have attached my sshd_config from the server, if this could be useful.
Password authentication is disabled, making sure one can only get in
when he has the RSA key.

OpenSSH version is 4.6p1-4.

Kind regards

Stijn Segers
# $OpenBSD: sshd_config,v 1.74 2006/07/19 13:07:10 dtucker Exp $

# This is the sshd server system-wide configuration file. See
# sshd_config(5) for more information.

# This sshd was compiled with PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

# The strategy used for options in the default sshd_config shipped with
# OpenSSH is to specify options with their default value where
# possible, but leave them commented. Uncommented options change a
# default value.

#Port 22
Protocol 2
#AddressFamily any
ListenAddress 0.0.0.0
#ListenAddress ::
AllowUsers stijn

# HostKey for protocol version 1
#HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key
# HostKeys for protocol version 2
#HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
#HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key

# Lifetime and size of ephemeral version 1 server key
#KeyRegenerationInterval 1h
#ServerKeyBits 768

# Logging
# obsoletes QuietMode and FascistLogging
#SyslogFacility AUTH
#LogLevel INFO

# Authentication:

#LoginGraceTime 2m
PermitRootLogin no
#StrictModes yes
#MaxAuthTries 6

#RSAAuthentication yes
PubkeyAuthentication yes
#AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys

# For this to work you will also need host keys in /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts
#RhostsRSAAuthentication no
# similar for protocol version 2
#HostbasedAuthentication no
# Change to yes if you don't trust ~/.ssh/known_hosts for
# RhostsRSAAuthentication and HostbasedAuthentication
#IgnoreUserKnownHosts no
# Don't read the user's ~/.rhosts and ~/.shosts files
#IgnoreRhosts yes

# To disable tunneled clear text passwords, change to no here!
PasswordAuthentication no
#PermitEmptyPasswords no

# Change to no to disable s/key passwords
ChallengeResponseAuthentication no

# Kerberos options
#KerberosAuthentication no
#KerberosOrLocalPasswd yes
#KerberosTicketCleanup yes
#KerberosGetAFSToken no

# GSSAPI options
#GSSAPIAuthentication no
#GSSAPICleanupCredentials yes

# Set this to 'yes' to enable PAM authentication, account processing,
# and session processing. If this is enabled, PAM authentication will
# be allowed through the ChallengeResponseAuthentication and
# PasswordAuthentication. Depending on your PAM configuration,
# PAM authentication via ChallengeResponseAuthentication may bypass
# the setting of "PermitRootLogin without-password".
# If you just want the PAM account and session checks to run without
# PAM authentication, then enable this but set PasswordAuthentication
# and ChallengeResponseAuthentication to 'no'.
UsePAM yes

#AllowTcpForwarding yes
#GatewayPorts no
#X11Forwarding no
#X11DisplayOffset 10
#X11UseLocalhost yes
#PrintMotd yes
#PrintLastLog yes
#TCPKeepAlive yes
#UseLogin no
#UsePrivilegeSeparation yes
#PermitUserEnvironment no
#Compression delayed
#ClientAliveInterval 0
#ClientAliveCountMax 3
#UseDNS yes
#PidFile /var/run/sshd.pid
#MaxStartups 10
#PermitTunnel no

# no default banner path
#Banner /etc/motd

# override default of no subsystems
Subsystem sftp /usr/lib/ssh/sftp-server

# Example of overriding settings on a per-user basis
#Match User anoncvs
# X11Forwarding no
# AllowTcpForwarding no
# ForceCommand cvs server

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