Based on the behavior I've observed, I think it's possible that there are two bugs in play here, and fixing one has revealed the other one.
I'm running Xubuntu 14.04. Before this update, starting my terminal from the applications menu yielded a shell with SSH_AUTH_SOCK correctly pointing at gnome-keyring, while starting my terminal from a folder in Thunar file manager yielded a shell with SSH_AUTH_SOCK incorrectly pointing at an ssh-agent instance. The latter didn't work because I only have my ssh key loaded into gnome-keyring. After the update, starting my terminal from the applications menu yields a shell with SSH_AUTH_SOCK correctly pointing at gnome-keyring, while starting my terminal from a folder in Thunar file manager yields a shell with SSH_AUTH_SOCK not set at all. I haven't read the recently released patch yet, so I don't know what it's supposed to do, but it sure looks like it got rid of the ssh-agent instance that I thought I had disabled long ago (great!). That still leaves the problem of why SSH_AUTH_SOCK isn't propagating into my terminal when launched from my file manager. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-keyring in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1271591 Title: upstart job race prevents gnome-keyring from being ssh agent Status in “gnome-keyring” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “gnome-keyring” source package in Trusty: Fix Released Bug description: I expect gnome-keyring to be the ssh authentication agent when I am logged in to a graphical session. Because of what I suspect is a race in upstart jobs, I believe SSH_AUTH_SOCK is being overwritten after gnome-keyring starts. Perhaps the gnome-session job needs to make sure the ssh-agent job is finished? [testcase] 1) Perform desktop login 2) [ "$GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL/ssh" = "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ] && echo Good || Fail Expected output: Good ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: gnome-session 3.9.90-0ubuntu5 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-5.20-generic 3.13.0 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-5-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.13.1-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Wed Jan 22 10:25:59 2014 InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-11-26 (56 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1) PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: gnome-session UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-01-17 (4 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-keyring/+bug/1271591/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
