GPG/SSH agent in MATE desktop stopped working

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi Nik,

this has been seen to in latest mate-session-manager upload-proposal (1.8.1-7). See #775914 on Debian BTS [1]. Your issue has already been reported as #775571 [2]. 

Mike

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/775914
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/775571

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----- Original message -----
> Hi,
> 
> approximately since the 1.8.1-6, where a related patch was applied, the
> GPS and SSH agent functionality stopped working.
> 
> I see gpg-agent and ssh-agent running:
> 
> dgeorg       1297   0.0   0.0   10684     340 ?               Ss     08:41     0:00
> /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/gpg-agent --daemon --sh
> --write-env-file=/home/dgeorg/.gnupg/gpg-agent-info-dgeorg-nb
> /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session x-session-manager
> dgeorg       1298   0.0   0.0   20236   2544 ?               Ss     08:41     0:00
> /usr/bin/gpg-agent --daemon --sh
> --write-env-file=/home/dgeorg/.gnupg/gpg-agent-info-dgeorg-nb
> /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session x-session-manager
> 
> And I see gnome-keyring-daemon running:
> 
> dgeorg       1270   0.0   0.1 282020   7260 ?               Sl     08:41     0:00
> /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --daemonize --login
> 
> However, no keys are unlocked at login.
> 
> What strikes me odd is that ssh-agent and gpg-agent are running, as I
> thought gnome-keyring-daemon played their parts, but maybe I am mistaken
> and they interoperate in some other way.
> 
> Also, reading the patch, it seems that nothing should have changed if I
> do not touch the relevant gconf settings.
> 
> The behaviour is reproducible on a co-workers machine.
> 
> Any hints?
> 
> Cheers,
> Nik