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Re: ssh-agent fails to create socket
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@Crawley 503 $ ssh-agent bash -l > > gustav@Crawley 501 $ ls -r /tmp > > ssh-zHtmAVFZ1412 > > gustav@Crawley 502 $ !! > > ls -r /tmp > > gustav@Crawley 503 $ env | grep SSH > > SSH_AGENT_PID=3624 > > SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-zHtmAVFZ1412/agent.1412 > > gustav@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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple