ssh-agent broken in Jaunty?

[Sean Carolan]

> As to the "it works a few times then not" - could it be that the timeout
> you've set is very short? ssh-agent will "forget" your passphrases after
> a predetermined period, rather like sudo does.

This problem may have been self-induced, I think I might have
zombified the seahorse-agent process while trying to correct something
else.

Since my reboot a few days ago it's been smooth sailing!