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I'm pretty sure that was his SSH connection dying after he killed the remote server. But yeah, it's hilariously/depressingly contradictory. Worse than useless, since you don't know if something went right, or something went wrong, or both, or neither!

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Yeah, could've been something like that. It doesn't normally do that it was just a one-off, so I figured it was just something weird up (like maybe I'd already told it to reboot and it didn't seem to work, so I sent it again but it was just starting).

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