Permission denied (publickey). ERROR: exited with return code [255]

Workhorse

12/3/22, 10:20 PM

I have been trying to figure out this problem for some time now. I have been connecting to my VM to access RStudio (an IDE). Furthermore, I run the following command:

gcloud beta compute --project "project-name" ssh "my-rstudio" --ssh-flag="-X"

and get the following error:

Permission denied (publickey).
ERROR: (gcloud.beta.compute.ssh) [/usr/bin/ssh] exited with return code [255].

Tried to figure out what was going on, so I used the more verbose flag:

gcloud beta compute --project "project-name" ssh "my-rstudio" --ssh-flag="-vvv"

The last few lines of that are as such:

debug1: Offering public key: /Users/sherifgerges/.ssh/google_compute_engine RSA SHA256:EUjXtb36bMLZr9QytqoCfxvpUgRFNC2mBnr6SCGkp6o explicit
debug3: send packet: type 50
debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply
debug3: receive packet: type 51
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
debug2: we did not send a packet, disable method
debug1: No more authentication methods to try.
[email protected]: Permission denied (publickey).
ERROR: (gcloud.beta.compute.ssh) [/usr/bin/ssh] exited with return code [255].

Do you have any idea what can be going on here? I tried deleting my SSH keys in the Metadata section of the console. That didn't work.

Furthermore,

gcloud compute routes list

returns the expected

default-internet       default     0.0.0.0/0       default-internet-gateway 1000

Have tried suggestions in other threads for hours. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

EDIT: I tried stopping/starting the VM via console. That also didn't work, unfortunately. :(

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Alex G

12/4/22, 9:55 PM

Based on the error that you are encountering, the installation of RStudio affected the SSH configuration of the VM Instance. There are a couple of troubleshooting that the [GCP documentation](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/troubleshooting/troubleshooting-ssh) provided, you can check it out. You can also contact the [RStudio support](https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/requests/new) since you seem to be using Pro because of the SSH function. I also suggest providing the guide that you are following on your post for a better understanding of the issue.

Elon Musk

I sit in a Tesla and translated this thread with Ai:

EN: Permission denied (publickey). ERROR: exited with return code [255]

TH: ปฏิเสธการอนุญาต (คีย์สาธารณะ) ข้อผิดพลาด: ออกด้วยรหัสส่งคืน [255]

RO: Permisiune refuzată (cheie publică). EROARE: ieșit cu codul de întoarcere [255]

RU: Отказано в доступе (publickey). ОШИБКА: выход с кодом возврата [255]

VI: Quyền bị từ chối (khóa công khai). LỖI: đã thoát với mã trả về [255]

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