X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: mwoehlke Subject: Re: cygwin 1.5.21-2: ssh-add unable to connect to ssh-agent with McAfee installed Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:18:33 -0500 Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <452C15C2.4060800@cdvinc.com> <31b7d2790610101517m128c257bi31c0a5767070a664@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Thunderbird/1.5.0.7 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 In-Reply-To: <31b7d2790610101517m128c257bi31c0a5767070a664@mail.gmail.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > On 10/10/06, Tim Beuman <> wrote: >> I still have problems with ssh-agent/ssh-add when I install McAfee. >> Browsing over the internet didn't yield a working solution. Before I >> could stop McAfee and it would work but with the latest version of >> McAfee (version 10?) disabling McAfee doesn't make any difference >> anymore. Only an uninstall of McAfee makes things work again but this is >> not an option. >> >> A search of the mailing lists yielded other reports of the same problem >> but no real solutions. >> >> After some digging in the source I found that ssh-agent keeps waiting in >> the select for ssh-add to connect. For whatever reason ssh-add seems to >> be unable to connect to the AF_LOCAL socket created by ssh-agent. >> >> Attached the strace files from ssh-agent and ssh-add as well as the >> cygcheck output. > > DELETED Ridiculous amount of stuff that probably should have been in > an attachment. Um, check again, there were about five lines other than what is quoted above (and those were 'hi' and a sig) that /weren't/ in attachments. :-) Good advice, though, hopefully it will help Tim. -- Matthew KDE: Desktop Excellence -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/