F16: ssh-add: Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

[Ed Greshko]

On 04/07/2012 03:01 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> Just updated to the latest kernel 3.3.1 and rebooted and tried to get
> everything going but I get:
>
> $ ssh-add
> Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.
> $
>
> What is this supposed to mean? This is perhaps the first time I have
> seen this error in almost 15 years on linux. How can I fix it?
>
> Of course, the kernel update may have nothing to do with it. I also
> updated  kernel-headers, libtasn1 and taglib at the same time.
>
> Many thanks and best wishes,
> Ranjan

It means /usr/bin/ssh-agent isn't running.

How are you logging in? 

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