On 27/01/2017 01:05, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > Does the agent process appear as soon as you log in?
No, it appears when I run "apt update". I had a similar problem with gvfs (see bug #852696) but in the case of gpg-agent the logs give less information about which apt add-on is responsible: Jan 27 10:53:26 hostname gpg-agent[1816]: gpg-agent (GnuPG) 2.1.18 starting in supervised mode. Jan 27 10:53:26 hostname gpg-agent[1816]: using fd 3 for ssh socket (/run/user/0/gnupg/S.gpg-agent.ssh) Jan 27 10:53:26 hostname gpg-agent[1816]: using fd 4 for browser socket (/run/user/0/gnupg/S.gpg-agent.browser) Jan 27 10:53:26 hostname gpg-agent[1816]: using fd 5 for extra socket (/run/user/0/gnupg/S.gpg-agent.extra) Jan 27 10:53:26 hostname gpg-agent[1816]: using fd 6 for std socket (/run/user/0/gnupg/S.gpg-agent) Jan 27 10:53:26 hostname gpg-agent[1816]: listening on: std=6 extra=5 browser=4 ssh=3 Here is what my system has in its apt config: /etc/apt/apt.conf.d: total 136 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 769 Nov 27 2015 01autoremove -r--r--r-- 1 root root 2677 Jan 24 15:42 01autoremove-kernels -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 628 May 6 2015 01autoremove-postgresql -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 369 Aug 1 21:58 05etckeeper -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 430 Jan 1 2014 10apt-listbugs -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 196 Jul 25 2015 11daptup -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 420 Jan 17 2014 20adequate -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 164 Jan 21 2015 20apt-show-versions -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80 Apr 29 2016 20auto-upgrades -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 202 Dec 22 17:41 20listchanges -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1040 Jun 7 2015 20packagekit -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 258 Jan 22 18:59 20services -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 131 Jun 26 2015 35dhelp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1488 Jan 26 23:08 50appstream -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1953 Nov 6 16:03 50apt-file.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 297 Nov 22 2014 50spacewalk -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4259 May 26 2016 50unattended-upgrades -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 307 Sep 23 13:18 50whatmaps_apt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 354 Jan 19 19:13 60gnome-software -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 458 Jan 19 18:36 60plasma-discover -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 182 Mar 19 2015 70debconf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 142 Aug 9 13:55 80debtags -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 266 Mar 7 2016 90junior-config -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 254 Sep 1 2015 90med-config -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 286 Jul 4 2016 90rkhunter -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 270 Mar 29 2015 90science-config -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 160 Nov 24 2012 90zope-common -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 129 May 4 2016 99apt-dater-host_periodic -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 160 May 10 2016 99how-can-i-help -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 231 Jan 1 2014 99-localepurge -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 338 Jan 17 16:03 99needrestart -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32 Jan 24 17:53 99synaptic -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 43 Jan 29 2016 overwrite I'll try to isolate the responsible package as time permits... -- Laurent.