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I can't connect to my Raspbery Pi over SSH any more. The last lines that appear on booting are:

[ ok ] Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshd.
Error opening '/dev/input/event*': No such file or directory

(btw: what is /dev/input/event*?)

But when I try to connect to my Raspberry Pi, I get this:

$ ssh user@raspberrypi
ssh: connect to host raspberrypi port 22: Connection refused

I found out that there is a problem with the SSH Daemon. ps aux |grep sshd does not list it as a process. Once I start it manually

/usr/sbin/sshd

SSH works well and I can connect with the command above. But soon as I reboot and try it again, I get the same error message.

I already tried to reinstall the openssh-server and then reinstall it. That didn't help. Does someone have a solution?

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    is anything plugged into the Pi like a usb keyboard/mouse? if so try unplugging it/them before continuing.
    – rob
    Commented Dec 18, 2014 at 13:34
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    That was it. I unplugged the keyboard, restarted the Pi and it worked. Unbelievable...
    – Monkey Supersonic
    Commented Dec 30, 2014 at 19:49

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/dev/input/event* is what it sounds like; a place for applications to receive input events (like a mouse click). As @rob noted the USB interface on the raspberrypi is somewhat unstable so not using it (or using a power isolated powered hub) are good first steps to otherwise inexplicable behavior.

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To start sshd on boot, type :

sudo update-rc.d ssh defaults
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