title: How do I push to Git Repo given the following error: An internal Exception occurred during push: ssh://git@github.com/xxx/xxx.git: session is down
body: <p>I recently set up a github account to store the source code of a project I have been working on.</p>
  
  <p>I am using <strong>egit eclipse</strong> plugin to push changes to <em>github</em>.</p>
  
  <p>I successfully pushed the initial code and 2 subsequent changes. However when I attempted to push the third change I was not able. The following excepiton appears in the eclipse error log.</p>
  
  <p>If someone could tell me the cause of this error, or tell me how I can go about debugging the problem it would be a great help.</p>
  
  <pre><code>org.eclipse.jgit.api.errors.JGitInternalException: Exception caught during execution of push command
      at org.eclipse.jgit.api.PushCommand.call(PushCommand.java:156)
      at org.eclipse.egit.core.op.PushOperation.run(PushOperation.java:227)
      at org.eclipse.egit.ui.internal.push.PushOperationUI.execute(PushOperationUI.java:145)
      at org.eclipse.egit.ui.internal.push.PushOperationUI$1.run(PushOperationUI.java:202)
      at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:54)
  Caused by: org.eclipse.jgit.errors.TransportException: ssh://git@github.com/xxx/xxx.git: session is down
      at org.eclipse.jgit.transport.JschSession$JschProcess.&lt;init&gt;(JschSession.java:154)
      at org.eclipse.jgit.transport.JschSession$JschProcess.&lt;init&gt;(JschSession.java:118)
      at org.eclipse.jgit.transport.JschSession.exec(JschSession.java:91)
      at org.eclipse.jgit.transport.TransportGitSsh$SshPushConnection.&lt;init&gt;(TransportGitSsh.java:306)
      at org.eclipse.jgit.transport.TransportGitSsh.openPush(TransportGitSsh.java:152)
      at org.eclipse.jgit.transport.PushProcess.execute(PushProcess.java:130)
      at org.eclipse.jgit.transport.Transport.push(Transport.java:1120)
      at org.eclipse.jgit.api.PushCommand.call(PushCommand.java:152)
      ... 4 more
  Caused by: com.jcraft.jsch.JSchException: session is down
      at com.jcraft.jsch.Session.openChannel(Session.java:750)
      at org.eclipse.jgit.transport.JschSession$JschProcess.&lt;init&gt;(JschSession.java:147)
      ... 11 more
  </code></pre>