Package: openssh-client Version: 1:7.4p1-5 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
When I run ssh-add to add my ssh keys to the ssh-agent, everything works fine. My environment variables are as below and ssh-agent is already running as part of Xsession startup I assume: $ env | egrep -i '(ssh|gpg|agent|keyring)' SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-ueF1DWSGqjM3/agent.1322 SSH_AGENT_PID=1396 GPG_AGENT_INFO=/run/user/501/gnupg/S.gpg-agent:0:1 $ ps auxw | egrep '(ssh|gpg|agent|keyring)' root 1027 0.0 0.0 69944 5364 ? Ss 21:34 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd -D root 1066 0.0 0.0 37788 2112 ? Ss 21:34 0:00 /bin/systemd-tty-ask-password-agent --wall simon 1307 0.0 0.0 130784 3008 ? Sl 21:34 0:00 /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --daemonize --login simon 1396 0.0 0.0 11084 328 ? Ss 21:34 0:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent x-session-manager simon 1519 0.0 0.0 17876 284 ? Ss 21:34 0:00 gpg-agent --daemon simon 1815 0.0 0.0 12784 924 pts/1 S+ 21:35 0:00 grep -E (ssh|gpg|agent|keyring) When I then log out of Gnome, and log back in again as the same user, I get the following error when running ssh-add: Error connecting to agent: No such file or directory I have the same environment variables, but no ssh-agent process, so it seems ssh-agent is getting run on first boot but not on subsequent logins to Gnome. I did some poking around Xsession.d and Xsession.options (which does include "use-ssh-agent") and also noticed /usr/lib/systemd/user/ssh-agent.service has a recent timestamp, so..... $ systemctl --user status ssh-agent ● ssh-agent.service - OpenSSH Agent Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/ssh-agent.service; static; vendor preset: enabled) Active: inactive (dead) Restarting ssh-agent.service does nothing, but looking through journalctl shows that its started, but its not in the process list, also seems dbus has the previous environment variables: Jan 05 21:36:42 greivous /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1974]: dbus-update-activation-environment: setting SSH_AGENT_PID=1396 Jan 05 21:36:42 greivous /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1974]: dbus-update-activation-environment: setting SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-ueF1DWSGqjM3/agent.1322 Jan 05 21:44:39 greivous systemd[1294]: Started OpenSSH Agent. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages openssh-client depends on: ii adduser 3.115 ii dpkg 1.18.18 ii libc6 2.24-8 ii libedit2 3.1-20160903-2 ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.15-1 ii libselinux1 2.6-3 ii libssl1.0.2 1.0.2j-5 ii passwd 1:4.2-3.3 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-4 Versions of packages openssh-client recommends: ii xauth 1:1.0.9-1 Versions of packages openssh-client suggests: pn keychain <none> pn libpam-ssh <none> pn monkeysphere <none> ii ssh-askpass-gnome [ssh-askpass] 1:7.4p1-5 -- no debconf information