Cannot SSH anymore, what went wrong?

Posted by lbwtz2 on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by lbwtz2
Published on 2010-12-27T13:22:08Z Indexed on 2010/12/27 19:55 UTC
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I use to ssh to a remote server (no rsa-key, just password).

Now the server do not accept the connection any more and throw me this error:

ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host

While I can google a little to find a fix I can't figure out what went wrong since I haven't touched anything on the machine since last login.

Can you help me find the cause?

EDIT: Inspecting the logs I've found these:

/var/auth.log
/var/log/auth.log:Dec 26 16:40:32 vps sshd[15567]: error: fork: Cannot allocate memory
/var/log/auth.log:Dec 26 16:41:05 vps sshd[15567]: error: fork: Cannot allocate memory
/var/log/auth.log:Dec 26 16:43:47 vps sshd[15567]: error: fork: Cannot allocate memory
/var/log/auth.log:Dec 27 03:20:06 vps sshd[15567]: error: fork: Cannot allocate memory
/var/log/auth.log:Dec 27 16:15:02 vps sshd[15567]: error: fork: Cannot allocate memory

And in the same span-time I've also found a lot of these:

/var/log/auth.log:Dec 26 13:00:01 vps CRON[1716]: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_unix.so): libcrypt.so.1: cannot map zero-fill pages: Cannot allocate memory
/var/log/auth.log:Dec 26 13:00:01 vps CRON[1716]: PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_unix.so

What are these?

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