Darren J Moffat writes:
> James Carlson wrote:
> > There are no core files generated (I have coreadm set up to put all
> > core files in a central directory, and I have global setid dumps
> > enabled).  There are no log messages generated.
> 
> So we need to "trap" its exit and find out how what is causing it to 
> exit "apparently" cleanly.
> 
> It exists on SIGTERM (which is what ssh-agent -k actually does).

I very much doubt that anything I'm doing would send it SIGTERM, but I
can start debugging.

> > It just plain disappears.  The only way I notice it is that subsequent
> > invocations of ssh require me to enter my passphrase to unlock my
> > local identity file.
> 
> Good for you then that you are doing it from .login rather than using 
> gdm because ssh-agent "disappearing" would cause the whole session to 
> logout (since gdm runs the session "under" ssh-agent).

Yikes.

> > Could this be CR 5004146?  I don't see others that are related, and
> > that seems like a stretch.  Is there anything I should be doing to
> > debug this?
> 
> It if is 5004146 you should be able to verify, using DTrace, and looking 
> to see if ssh-agent has died just after getting a request.

OK.  I was mostly fishing to see if anyone else has seen this or if
(maybe) I'm the only one trying to use ssh-agent.  ;-}

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