# \[SOLVED\] Dropbear service fails
**URL:** https://dietpi.com/forum/t/solved-dropbear-service-fails/6061
**Category:** Troubleshooting
**Created:** [13 December 2021 17:33 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/solved-dropbear-service-fails/6061 "2021-12-13T17:33:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@peelingwave](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/peelingwave)
#### Post date: [13 December 2021 17:33 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/solved-dropbear-service-fails/6061/1 "2021-12-13T17:33:08Z")
SSH was working fine until I finished a Wireguard install and rebooted, now I can’t SSH into my local RPI, seems to be an issue with dropbear. I’m on 7.7.3 and when I try to update to 7.9.3, I get more errors complaining about dropbear and the update fails also.
First line of boot message and output of systemctl status drobear.service below
link to pics if image doesn’t show [https://imgur.com/a/XFqMs5z](https://imgur.com/a/XFqMs5z)
Any advice?
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### Author:  [@Joulinar](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Joulinar)
#### Post date: [13 December 2021 17:53 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/solved-dropbear-service-fails/6061/2 "2021-12-13T17:53:40Z")
Can you share following
```nohighlight
cat /etc/default/dropbear
```
In worst case you can run dietpi-software and switch SSH server preference to OpenSSH to get SSH access back working.
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### Author:  [@peelingwave](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/peelingwave)
#### Post date: [13 December 2021 18:08 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/solved-dropbear-service-fails/6061/3 "2021-12-13T18:08:00Z")
Sure thing. I’ll post another pic unless you have anotehr way for me to post the output since this is a headless server that I’ve currently connected a monitor and keyboard.
Edit, I’ll try your suggestion to run install openssh
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### Author:  [@peelingwave](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/peelingwave)
#### Post date: [13 December 2021 18:11 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/solved-dropbear-service-fails/6061/4 "2021-12-13T18:11:27Z")
Here’s a link to the pic in the meantime
[https://imgur.com/IrATzvE](https://imgur.com/IrATzvE)
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### Author:  [@Joulinar](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Joulinar)
#### Post date: [13 December 2021 18:15 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/solved-dropbear-service-fails/6061/5 "2021-12-13T18:15:22Z")
The issue seems the last line on your configuration file. The KeepAlive yes to be removed
Did you add it manually?
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### Author:  [@peelingwave](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/peelingwave)
#### Post date: [13 December 2021 18:24 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/solved-dropbear-service-fails/6061/6 "2021-12-13T18:24:11Z")
And fixed, thank you joulinar! I’m not sure why this line is in there since I don’t recall typing it in. I do have problems of my ssh connection timing out, but the last time I tried fixing that was weeks ago.
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### Author:  [@Joulinar](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Joulinar)
#### Post date: [14 December 2021 09:06 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/solved-dropbear-service-fails/6061/7 "2021-12-14T09:06:16Z")
probably you added the value and did not restart the service until now. 🤔
But if you have issues with closing sessions, you might need to have a look to the client settings.
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### Author:  [@peelingwave](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/peelingwave)
#### Post date: [15 December 2021 03:35 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/solved-dropbear-service-fails/6061/8 "2021-12-15T03:35:11Z")
Will take a look, thanks. And apologies for the late reply, new here and notifications to my email don’t seem to be pushing through. In my profile email is shown as my username and I can’t update it with my email.