SSH Server not starting

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OS type and version Ubuntu Linux 24.04.2
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Hello, I cant re-start SSH server. When I click on the arrow it does not start. If I re-start the server it does not work, I even went back to old snapshots and still did not work.

Any ideas please?

Thank you

We need to see the logs.
journalctl -n 100 -g "ssh"

I discovered that it turns on but only after a long time, several minutes (around 3 minutes)

Strange thing is that it turns on after few minutes. I am using a private key (not password) for authentication. If I want 3 minutes SSH activates, but not sure if it is normal

No.

These logs are already too old as they don’t show the start process. It really depends on how deep you want to dig or just wait to see if this happens again? Sometimes these things aren’t repeatable so chasing them is kinda pointless.

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Those log entries aren’t relevant to the problem. You need to watch the log while restarting the service to see what is happening.