Apple Update Breaks SSH

The latest security update from Apple broke ssh for me and, apparently, many others:

mark@dijkstra:~$ ssh
Bus error

Update:
Looks like this is due to an incompatibility with Instant Hijack from Rogue Amoeba. Disabling this software restores ssh functionality. Thanks to Adrian for pointing this out.

Update #2:
As if there was any doubt that Rogue Amoeba was awesome, they have already fixed this in AirFoil 3.1.3. Quoting the site:

Updated Instant Hijack to 2.0.3 - fixes a crash in ssh and related commands when using Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) with Apple Security Update 2008-002

Update #3:
Full details on the fix are available on Rogue Amoeba’s blog here. Thanks for the link, Paul.

4 Responses to “Apple Update Breaks SSH”


  1. 1 Adrian

    Check out http://tinyurl.com/3bo65u for a fix, it seems that the problem was found. Cheers!

  2. 2 Mark

    Awesome. This worked! Thanks!

  3. 3 Paul
  4. 4 Mark

    Thanks Paul!

    The turn around time on this has my head spinning. Awesome customer service.

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