Stuck connections to etserver, with infinite "Shutting down sentry" messages #692
Description
Connecting from my macOS client to my linux server, the client is just "sticking" and not ever finishing a connection. Even Ctrl-C and Ctrl-\ don't quit it, only closing the terminal tab or sending a kill signal from outside the process does.
Looking at the logs, I see what looks like a successful connection in the etclient log, and then tens of thousands of "Shutting down sentry" messages in the stderr log:
$ et --version
et version 6.2.9
$ head /tmp/etclient-stderr-2025-05-07_21-51-25.log
Setting up and starting sentry
Shutting down sentry
Shutting down sentry
Shutting down sentry
Shutting down sentry
...
$ wc -l /tmp/etclient-stderr-2025-05-07_21-51-25.log
1855934 /tmp/etclient-stderr-2025-05-07_21-51-25.log
$ ssh prime
Last login: Fri Apr 25 04:50:00 2025 from 100.113.157.9
offby1 in 🌐 prime in ~
❯ /usr/bin/etserver --version
et version 6.2.4I updated the remote server, too, just in case, and even with 6.2.9 I still see the same issue.
Here's a client log:
etclient-2025-05-07_21-51-25.log
I'm able to ssh to the hosts, and port 2022 is open:
$ nc -vz prime 2022
Connection to prime port 2022 [tcp/down] succeeded!I've been tailing the et.service logs on the destination, though, and I don't see any activity there.