Cannot access gitlab remote through ssh

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Mon Jul 21 18:18:29 UTC 2025


On 7/20/25 15:18, Alessandro Astone wrote:
> My ssh key was about to expire on gitlab, so I removed it and added it again 
> (this time without an expiration date).
> Now I find myself unable to fetch/push at git at gitlab.freedesktop.org:* from a PC 
> with only that ssh key installed.
> `git fetch --verbose` does not print anything, and never returns.
> I am still able to push from another machine with a different key.
> 
> My account is 'aleasto', affected key is labeled 'ubuntu'.

You need to use the hostname ssh.gitlab.freedesktop.org for ssh access
since the hosting migration earlier this year.

See https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2025-April/003596.html or
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freedesktop/freedesktop/-/issues/2076#note_2831847

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