ssh-agent not started with F17 LXDE spin

Ranjan Maitra maitra at iastate.edu
Tue Jun 5 03:20:19 UTC 2012


On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 02:46:13 +0200 Christoph Wickert
<christoph.wickert at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Am Dienstag, den 29.05.2012, 22:19 -0500 schrieb Ranjan Maitra:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The F17 LXDE spin has something incorrectly set up. This is because the
> > LiveCD does not get the ssh-agent started upon logging in. To replicate
> > the problem, please do the following:
> > 
> > boot into the LiveCD.
> > 
> > open a terminal window and type:
> > 
> > $ ssh-add
> > 
> > We will get an error message:
> > 
> > Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.
> > 
> > Only the LXDE spin has this problem: all other F17 spins are fine which
> > leads me to suspect that the issue is with one of the components that
> > make up LXDE.
> > 
> > Not sure under what component the bug report should be filed.
> 
> Hi Ranjan
> 
> there already is a bug report and a workaround at
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820514
> 
> I will look into this later this week and provide an update.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Christoph
> 

Thanks, Christoph! Hopefully, we can roll out an updated bugfix pretty
soon: that will be great!

Best wishes,
Ranjan


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