I can't resist chiming in...
This bug/issue/behaviour is pretty aggravating. I had forgotten about
it after changing the theme on lucid, and was reminded of it after a new
maverick install.
Sure it's easy for us to fix, but for the average Joe it's simply yet another
reason to switch back to a
Just my $0.02...
If you use an SSH agent, do yourself a favor and use OpenSSH's
own ssh-agent. I've found
seahorse/gnome-keyring-daemon/whatever very unreliable,
especially when I run dozens of parallel ssh commands (which all
use public key auth via the SSH agent). I give it a chance with
Running into this on intrepid. I have two keys loaded into my gnome-
keyring agent, one DSA, one RSA. Pubkey auth using the DSA is key is
failing with the Agent admitted failure message, but RSA succeeds
immediately after.
Ran an strace, and noticed that it's writing the following to syslog: