X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:21:14 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: OpenSSH ssh-agent regression in 5.9p1-1: "Could not open a connection to your authentication agent" error Message-ID: <20120129092114.GB1011@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4F247056.3090804@list-post.mks-mail.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4F247056.3090804@list-post.mks-mail.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 On Jan 28 23:01, Markus Schönhaber wrote: > 28.01.2012 22:00, Philip Lowman: > > There appears to be a regression in the most recent OpenSSH cygwin > > package (5.9p1-1, built 1/18/2012) related to the ssh-agent program. > > I see that too. > > > The ssh-add program is unable to add SSH keys because the ssh-agent > > program doesn't appear to be creating its socket file properly in > > /tmp. > > AFAIKT the socket file is created - but the ssh-agent process dies > shortly after being started. > > > 1. Install OpenSSH 5.9p1-1 in Cygwin (or upgrade to it) > > 2. Run the ssh-agent program spawning a bash shell > > $ ssh-agent bash > > This seems to happen only if ssh-agent is told to spawn another process. This is supposed to be fixed in Cygwin 1.7.10. I just tried it and it worked for me. Please fetch a recent snapshot DLL from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ and try again. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple