Hi Ondrej,
 
> > bird1_1  | bird: gortr: Lost connection: Failed to read private key:
> > /etc/bird/id_rsa

Do you have an SSH key in /etc/bird/id_rsa with appropriate rights?

So I tried again, you were right, there was a permission issue.
Although, now there is an issue with the actual SSH connection establishment.
GoRTR will disconnect due to an error in the message that seems to be received (unmarshal error for field Language of type disconnectMsg).
https://github.com/golang/crypto/blob/master/ssh/messages.go#L297
Any idea on this?

bird1_1  | bird: gortr: Channel roa4 connected to table t_roa4
bird1_1  | bird: gortr: Channel roa6 connected to table t_roa6
bird1_1  | bird: gortr: Initializing
bird1_1  | bird: gortr: Starting
bird1_1  | bird: gortr: Changing from Down to Connecting state
bird1_1  | bird: gortr: Opening a connection
bird1_1  | bird: gortr: State changed to start
bird1_1  | bird: Started
gortr_1  | time="2019-04-12T17:36:18Z" level=info msg="Enabling ssh with the following authentications: password=false, key=true"
bird1_1  | bird: gortr: The other side closed a connection
bird1_1  | bird: gortr: Changing from Connecting to Transport-Error state
bird1_1  | bird: gortr: Closing a connection
gortr_1  | time="2019-04-12T17:36:20Z" level=info msg="New update (80051 uniques, 80051 total prefixes). 0 bytes. Updating sha256 hash  -> dc06db9a6ae2b062630b820786f053f552faa2ebf7c675f6d1e21d16fa56aa70"
gortr_1  | time="2019-04-12T17:36:20Z" level=info msg="Updated added, new serial 1"
gortr_1  | time="2019-04-12T17:36:20Z" level=info msg="Accepted ssh connection from 10.1.0.2:42640 (1/0)"
gortr_1  | time="2019-04-12T17:36:20Z" level=info msg="Accepted tcp connection from 10.1.0.3:52904 (1/0)"
gortr_1  | time="2019-04-12T17:36:20Z" level=info msg="Connected (ssh-key): rpki/10.1.0.2:42640 with key ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQC1PYoRv0xuIMbv6aQZbXUNzqS611+FgahO0tNJ1C/CD2yxmzDuijjiAL3ia3UNPuIwS4Bwukn0EQJP/J2UGM0ABGR6r8n46RzFFkBqVBXrpRNThsD36hSYeUqfir1DChxknXCEG0pLcs5cW3OZagROcW5eZbbbTD40lIglhthtrf/9d241WUcvrhXiE/VaZvj8wi2lY26MuvqDGJgApOK4gi4gLzlr5qT4aDIzUIV0LlYul3hOFX/UMlX0yJg2cgEz/xRRlUfpsx6rQkwQZ0z1lwI0QBvHlON/+Azy/HmGWFcQ2S0V+CWUFHoZ/PBqmBnLT5MBSy5r/9RQVfoaeHBv"
gortr_1  | time="2019-04-12T17:36:20Z" level=error msg="Error with ssh client 10.1.0.2:42640: ssh: unmarshal error for field Language of type disconnectMsg"

Thank you,
Best,
Louis