Public bug reported: (the process listing output in this bug report is invalid, I have manually killed ssh-agent in an attempt to get it working before reporting this bug)
I've been running ssh-agent since at least 9.04, it's worked beautifully until 11.04, where the communication between ssh and ssh-agent seems to have fallen apart. This particular machine was a fresh 10.04 install, upgraded to 10.10, and upgraded again to 11.04. ps shows that ssh-agent is running, the environment variables point to a valid unix domain socket and the PID is correct for the running agent. However ssh does not bring up the pinentry program; I enter the passphrase at the shell prompt and the login works as normal. However the computer I connected to does not show the agent variables as they used to (and I can't ssh to another machine from that machine and use the key, as is possible with an agent and agent forwarding). /etc/alternatives/pinentry points to /usr/bin/pinentry-qt4, which is correct, and pinentry-qt4 is executable and appears to work correctly (I can issue GETPIN and get the popup and have the pin entered returned to the shell). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: openssh-client 1:5.8p1-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-2.29-generic 2.6.38-rc3 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-2-generic x86_64 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Feb 9 14:15:20 2011 InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027) ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE= RelatedPackageVersions: ssh-askpass 1:1.2.4.1-9 libpam-ssh N/A keychain N/A ssh-askpass-gnome N/A SSHClientVersion: OpenSSH_5.8p1 Debian-1ubuntu1, OpenSSL 0.9.8o 01 Jun 2010 SourcePackage: openssh ** Affects: openssh (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug natty -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to openssh in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/716026 Title: regression: ssh-agent running but not working -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs