Description of problem: Section Configuring an OpenSSH Client/ Configuring ssh-agent with GNOME. Configuring ssh-agent to start explicitly is not needed, /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc does that by default both in RHL 8.0 and current (Feb 10) rawhide. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rhl-cg(EN)-8.0.93-HTML-RHI(2003-01-16T17:37-0400)
Indeed, you are correct. I removed this step. Thanks for the report.