Once seahorse-agent crashes, clicking Close prevents any use of SSH or GnuPG passphrase caching. Clicking 'Restart Application' does provide access to SSH and GnuPG but without any caching. The zombie process remains:
$ ps waux | grep agent neil 6298 0.0 0.0 10164 812 ? Ss 14:17 0:00 /usr/bin/gpg-agent --daemon --sh neil 6300 0.0 0.1 17808 1216 ? Ss 14:17 0:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session /usr/bin/seahorse-agent --execute /usr/bin/gnome-session neil 6303 0.0 0.0 7848 660 ? S 14:17 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session /usr/bin/seahorse-agent --execute /usr/bin/gnome-session neil 6310 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Zs 14:17 0:00 [seahorse-agent] <defunct> neil 6429 0.0 0.7 103324 7988 ? Ss 14:18 0:00 /usr/bin/seahorse-agent neil 6503 0.0 0.0 4388 724 pts/2 R+ 14:20 0:00 grep --color agent -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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