After update to karmic, ssh-askpass does not seem to work.

[Alberto González Palomo]

I just updated to karmic from jaunty, and now SSH always asks me in the console for the passphrase for my public key.
Before I got a graphical dialog box, I guess the one provided by ssh-askpass, and only had to enter it once per session, but now I got asked in the console every single time.
I've checked that I have ssh-askpass-gnome, and reinstalled it with Synaptic (mark for reinstalling, apply). I didn't try to end the session and try again, which I'll do after submitting this report.

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10

ssh-askpass-gnome:
  Installed: 1:5.1p1-6ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1:5.1p1-6ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 1:5.1p1-6ubuntu2 0
        500 http://ftp.stw-bonn.de karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Alberto González Palomo (matmota)]

After closing the session and logging in again, it works fine.
I had rebooted a couple of times after the upgrade to 9.10 from 9.04, so I assume that the key factor was reinstalling ssh-askpass-gnome.

I'm ready to accept this as invalid, but maybe it would be good to keep it around for a bit in case someone else is experiencing this issue.

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

So this is working now for you?

Regards
chuck

[Alberto González Palomo (matmota)]

Yes, it's working perfectly again.

I'm concerned that this could be a symptom of some issue with the package. It should not be necessary to reinstall it.

I tried looking in the system logs, but I can't find any mention of ssh-askpass or even ssh.
Do you have any ideas about things I could check?