When I first started a server I contracted with Sakura VPS and tried to ssh, I couldn’t connect due to a Connection refused error.

Error message: Connection refused

$ ssh [email protected]
ssh: connect to host 160.16.55.xxx port 22: Connection refused

I had no choice but to connect to the server from Sakura VPS’s dedicated “VPS Control Panel” and check the console, where processing was stuck with “Updating RPMS on system” being output.

When I investigated, it seems to be a specification that updates all installed RPMs during first boot, which is why it takes time.

After waiting about 20 minutes and checking the console, it had progressed to the next process, and after a while, the login prompt was displayed successfully.

This only happens during first boot, so it’s only troublesome initially, but it would be nice if CentOS with regularly updated RPMs was installed by default.

That’s all from the Gemba.