Bug#674203: gnome-keyring: No more works as ssh-agent: Agent admitted failure to sign using the key.

[Axel Beckert]

Package: gnome-keyring
Version: 3.4.1-3
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

gnome-keyring no more works for me as ssh-agent for a few days -- since
the first new X session after 3.4.x was uploaded to unstable.

Using ssh as well as calling ssh-add always results in the error message

  Agent admitted failure to sign using the key.

once per key. It then either asks for a password if password
authentication is possible, or exits unsuccessfully else.

Since 3.4 changed the location of the sockets from /tmp/ to ~/.cache/, I
tried to move it back to /tmp/ by setting XDG_RUNTIME_DIR to /tmp/. The
keyring sockets then were correctly located in /tmp/, but it still
failed to load my SSH keys.

Disabling gnome-keyring's ssh-agent functionality via passing the option
"-c pkcs11,secrets" helped to get ssh-agent functionality back by using
OpenSSH's ssh-agent again (cf. http://bugs.debian.org/623539).

gnome-keyring-daemon was called as

  eval `gnome-keyring-daemon -s`

in my ~/.xsession file and is now called as

  eval `gnome-keyring-daemon -s -c pkcs11,secrets`

as workaround to be able to use SSH keys again.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (900, 'testing'), (600, 'stable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.3.0-trunk-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-keyring depends on:
ii  dbus-x11                                     1.5.12-1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.12.1-1
ii  libc6                                        2.13-32
ii  libcap-ng0                                   0.6.6-1
ii  libcap2-bin                                  1:2.22-1.1
ii  libdbus-1-3                                  1.5.12-1
ii  libgck-1-0                                   3.4.1-3
ii  libgcr-3-1                                   3.4.1-3
ii  libgcrypt11                                  1.5.0-3
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.32.3-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.4.2-1

Versions of packages gnome-keyring recommends:
pn  libpam-gnome-keyring  <none>

gnome-keyring suggests no packages.

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