From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.0 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020314 Description of problem: The way the gdm Session scripts are written ssh-agent is not started if the switchdesk gnome config is in place. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Choose Gnome session in gdm with the switchdesk packaged installed 2.If switchdesk is not present...the next segment of Xsession logic will call ssh-agent Expected Results: I would expect that that the switchdesk gnome client would attempt to make a call to ssh-agent gnome-session, There are several places inside the Xsession script where the actually gnome-session command can get called. In some places gnome-session is started with ssh-agent...and in other parts of the logic gnome-session is called directly. It would be nice if all the defualt logic included a call to ssh-agent. Additional info:
ssh-agent is started by xinitrc et al in Red Hat Linux 8.0, this should resolve the problem. Closing bug as CURRENTRELEASE