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Hi,
I'm using Arch with the Cinnamon desktop environment, loaded from GDM.
All of a sudden this week, I don't appear to have an SSH Agent loaded.
[ichilton@ichilton-folio ~]$ ssh-add -L
Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.
[ichilton@ichilton-folio ~]$ ps -ef |grep agent
ichilton 877 782 0 14:53 tty2 00:00:00 /usr/lib/polkit-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
ichilton 2214 2097 0 15:33 pts/2 00:00:00 grep agent
[ichilton@ichilton-folio ~]$ I've got gnome-keyring installed but haven't had to configure it - it just worked out of the box before.
Any ideas what's changed?
Where does it usually get loaded from?
Thanks,
Ian
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This may be the intermittent bug introduced about 18 months ago after GNOME 3.16 appeared?
E.g. see https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=196068 and https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=205961 and https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=205496.
I added the following ugly hack to my ~/.bashrc to avoid the problem and don't see it anymore.
# Till this gets fixed ..
if [ -z "$SSH_CLIENT" ]; then
export SSH_AUTH_SOCK="$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/keyring/ssh"
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Thanks for the reply!
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https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=211196
Its a permanent fault introduced with Gnome Keyring 3.20. Rolling back to Gnome Keyring and Seahorse 3.18 (or 19 whatever is previous to 3.20 in the Arch Rollback repo) fixes the issue.
I have been meaning to raise a bug report to Gnome-Keyring.
Also I am using Cinnamon, so it might be Cinnamon specific.
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Also I am using Cinnamon, so it might be Cinnamon specific.
Before that work-around it used to happen to me on GNOME 3 intermittently, maybe 1 in 5 reboot/logins. It seems to be some kind of race condition at login.
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This bug is annoying now and I really cannot see why it is happening (after a compare of the files between 3.18 and 3.20)..
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Thanks - at least it's not just me!
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