[Bug 383926] [NEW] ssh-aggent stopped accepting connections

[Marius Gedminas]

Public bug reported:

Suddenly my ssh-agent stopped accepting connections:

  $ ssh-add -l
  Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

It is still running (pid 4530, which matches the value of $SSH_AGENT_PID), but doesn't appear to be listening on the socket (/tmp/keyring-Kp3t4b/socket.ssh according to $SSH_AUTH_SOCK).  The socket exists in the filesystem, but neither lsof, nor fuser, nor netstat -x show anything about it.  What lsof shows is that ssh-agent is listening on
/tmp/ssh-PcVXlL4456/agent.4456, which doesn't appear in my environment at all.

pstree indicates that pid 4530 was launched as

  /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session /usr/bin/pulse-session
/usr/bin/seahorse-agent --executex-session-manag

but /proc/4530/exe confirms it is running the /usr/bin/ssh-agent
process.

I used ssh-agent successfully this morning, and it stopped working when
I openend gnome-terminal with several tabs each trying to ssh into a
different local host.  (I've used that techinque succesfully in the
past.)

I do not know how to reproduce the problem.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: openssh-client 1:5.1p1-5ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LC_CTYPE=lt_LT.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=lt_LT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: openssh
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-12-generic i686

** Affects: openssh (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386

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ssh-aggent stopped accepting connections
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/383926
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