ssh connection takes forever to initiate, stuck at “pledge: network”

This is probably an issue with D-Bus and systemd. If the dbus service is restarted for some reason, you will also need to restart systemd-logind.

You can check if this is the issue by opening the ssh daemon log (on Ubuntu it should be /var/log/auth.log) and check if it has these lines:

sshd[2721]: pam_systemd(sshd:session): Failed to create session: Connection timed out

If yes, just restart systemd-logind service:

systemctl restart systemd-logind

I had this same issue on CentOS 7, because the messagebus was restarted (which is how the D-Bus service is called on CentOS).

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