Another way to work around it: delete the temporary named pipe that SSH uses to communicate with the authentication agent.
$ rm $SSH_AUTH_SOCK Then SSH will work, prompting for a passphrase for your key... of course, it won't actually be able to store any keys! I still don't know what makes seahorse crash so much :-( -- can't ssh out; seahorse-agent seems dead https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/111771 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to seahorse in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs