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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: ssh-agent fails to create socket
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On Oct 17 11:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Oct 14 13:02, Zdzislaw Meglicki wrote:
> > After the latest upgrade (yesterday) I found that ssh-agent no longer works. It 
> > looks like if fails to create a socket. Here is an illustration:
> > 
> > gustav AT Crawley 503 $ ssh-agent bash -l
> > gustav AT Crawley 501 $ ls -r /tmp
> > ssh-zHtmAVFZ1412
> > gustav AT Crawley 502 $ !!
> > ls -r /tmp
> > gustav AT Crawley 503 $ env | grep SSH
> > SSH_AGENT_PID=3624
> > SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-zHtmAVFZ1412/agent.1412
> > gustav AT Crawley 504 $ 
> > 
> > So: it has created the directory in /tmp, but then something goes wrong, 
> > probably it can't make the socket, so it cleans up and removes the directory. My 
> 
> I can reproduce this issue.  It's not that it can't create the socket,
> actually it does so, but for some reason it calls select and, when select
> returns, it decides to clean up and exit.  It's tricky to debug because
> ssh-agent has no debug mode and for some reason it doesn't occur under
> strace.
> 
> For the time being, the workaround is:
> 
>   $ eval `ssh-agent -s`

    $ eval `ssh-agent -c`

if you're running tcsh.


Corinna

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