Re: [DNG] Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

2017-09-19 Thread Florian Zieboll
On Sat, 16 Sep 2017 14:30:37 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > On Sat, 16 Sep 2017 13:03:01 +0200 > Florian Zieboll wrote: > > > On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 23:43:34 -0400 > > Steve Litt wrote: > > > > > Is it just me, or does

Re: [DNG] Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

2017-09-17 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 16/09/2017 à 13:03, Florian Zieboll a écrit : On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 23:43:34 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: Is it just me, or does ssh-agent interacting with dbus seem like a horrible idea? IIUC, they are only interacting insofar, that the ssh-agent will terminate as

Re: [DNG] Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

2017-09-16 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 16 Sep 2017 13:47:58 +0100 Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote: > Arnt Karlsen writes: > > ..which idea is worse then, keep having dbus interacting with > > ssh-agent, or ripping out dbus of Devuan? > > Ripping it out looks like a lot of work, based on just a quick look

Re: [DNG] Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

2017-09-16 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 16 Sep 2017 13:03:01 +0200 Florian Zieboll wrote: > On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 23:43:34 -0400 > Steve Litt wrote: > > > Is it just me, or does ssh-agent interacting with dbus seem like a > > horrible idea? > > > IIUC, they are only interacting

Re: [DNG] Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

2017-09-16 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
Arnt Karlsen writes: ..which idea is worse then, keep having dbus interacting with ssh-agent, or ripping out dbus of Devuan? Ripping it out looks like a lot of work, based on just a quick look at dpkg/status. A lot of nontrivial things to think about. I noticed a printer library on the list

Re: [DNG] Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

2017-09-16 Thread Florian Zieboll
On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 23:43:34 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > Is it just me, or does ssh-agent interacting with dbus seem like a > horrible idea? IIUC, they are only interacting insofar, that the ssh-agent will terminate as soon as (in this case) dbus(-launch) exits. From

Re: [DNG] Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

2017-09-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 16 Sep 2017 10:34:21 +0200, Didier wrote in message <28b50767-5aaa-f757-fd7f-b54280352...@in2p3.fr>: > Le 16/09/2017 à 05:43, Steve Litt a écrit : > > On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 05:29:30 -0500 > > hal wrote: > > > > > >> Didier, > >> Thank you for that. > >> Is there a way

Re: [DNG] Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

2017-09-16 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 16/09/2017 à 05:43, Steve Litt a écrit : On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 05:29:30 -0500 hal wrote: Didier, Thank you for that. Is there a way to restart the ssh-agent dbus process without logging out? Is it just me, or does ssh-agent interacting with dbus seem like a horrible

Re: [DNG] Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

2017-09-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 05:29:30 -0500 hal wrote: > > Didier, > Thank you for that. > Is there a way to restart the ssh-agent dbus process without logging > out? Is it just me, or does ssh-agent interacting with dbus seem like a horrible idea? SteveT Steve Litt September

Re: [DNG] Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

2017-09-15 Thread Jamey Fletcher
> mylo2594 1 0 Sep05 ?00:00:00 ssh-agent > mylo2614 1 0 Sep05 ?00:00:00 ssh-agent [...] > mylo 29792 1 0 Sep01 ?00:00:00 ssh-agent > mylo 30159 1 0 Sep11 ?00:00:00 ssh-agent I would start with $ ps axf to

Re: [DNG] Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

2017-09-15 Thread Florian Zieboll
On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 05:29:30 -0500 hal wrote: > the ssh-agent dbus process Oh, and the ssh-agent connecting to dbus actually seems not to be the problem, because it shows up only once (at least in the output you sent in your first mail). So it would be really interesting to

Re: [DNG] Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

2017-09-15 Thread hal
Didier Kryn wrote on 09/15/2017 02:58 AM: >     Hi Hal. > >     Seems you didn't logout since august 24. I admit that this accumulation > of ssh-agents is strange and deserves investigation, but simply ending the > session should kill them all. Didier, Thank you for that. Is there a way to

Re: [DNG] Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

2017-09-15 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 15/09/2017 à 02:47, hal a écrit : I've noticed that my ssh-agent process seems to stop working with 'ssh-add' after a few days or so. Issuing 'ssh-add' from an xfce4-terminal results in the error message "Could not open a connection to your authentication agent." Why is this? There