ssh-agent no longer started with 3.3 kernels (F16/17)?

Phil Meyer pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com
Wed May 30 22:19:27 UTC 2012


On 05/29/2012 04:27 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> On Tue, 29 May 2012 16:04:06 -0600 Phil Meyer<pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 05/29/2012 03:00 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>> ...
>>>> $ ssh-add
>>>>
>>>> Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.
>>>>
>> ...
>>
>> Just a note to say that as far as I can tell, it works fine on a fresh
>> F17, kernel 3.3.7-1.fc17.x86_64.
> Thanks! But not on the F17 LXDE spin. In fact, if we just try the spin
> (without even installing), we get the above error. (On the original F16
> spin, the prompt just comes back which makes sense.) Since this is
> caused in this example even before I install, there is some problem
> somewhere. Perhaps in the LXDE spin.
>
> Ranjan

Hmmm... I am using enlightenment, but GNOME is installed, and I have 
enlightenment set to start GNOME services.

Makes me wonder if that is related.


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