Description of problem: After today's update of openssh-clients, ssh-add says: $ ssh-add Could not open a connection to your authentication agent. $ env | grep SSH SSH_ASKPASS=/usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass $ pgrep ssh ssh-agent isn't running at all. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): openssh-clients-5.1p1-4.fc11.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: Note that downgrading to the openssh before doesn't fix this either, so it probably is somewhere else.
I'm not quite sure what should be the proper component, but definitely not openssh.
gnome-keyring-daemon provides ssh-agent functionality in the gnome desktop. Is it running ?
Nope, pgrep(1) doesn't find it.
I am seeing the same problem. On my system gnome-keyring-daemon is running but ssh-add exits immediately with the message "Could not open a connection to your authentication agent" For me downloading gnome-keyring to 2.25.1-1.fc11 seems to work.
*** Bug 475886 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 327047 [details] dbus init later This patch helps here
Upstream reference: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-keyring-list/2008-December/msg00004.html Should be in tomorrow's rawhide. Thanks.