Failing to push git to Heroku port 22: bad file number

Question

After creating my rails project, pushing it into the GIT repo, was not able to push it to Heroku. When I run the command:

git push heroku master

I get this error:

ssh: connect to host heroku.com port 22: Bad file number
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

Am not behind a firewall, proxy or vpn.. I have run

  heroku status

and it is working fine.

I have even made sure ssh is working fine with Git. and run

 ssh -vT [email protected]

and it run successfully

I run

 telnet heroku.com 22 

and it failed

 connecting to heroku.com .. could not open connection to the host, on port 22:Connect failed

Also run and failed

 ssh [email protected]
 ssh: connect to host heroku.com port 22: bad file number

Answer 1

The dreaded Bad file number. It's the PC LOAD LETTER of git. It's inscrutable, but almost always a bad key. Try updating your key in heroku and make sure that you are presenting the correct key when trying to connect.