I can't reproduce this: when I run 'bzr pull lp:bzr' with no ssh agent, I'm prompted to enter the passphrase for the key, and when i do things work normally.
Does 'ssh bazaar.launchpad.net' ask you to enter the passphrase? Do you perhaps have ssh configured not to prompt, or perhaps you have a broken ssh-agent?
I can't reproduce this: when I run 'bzr pull lp:bzr' with no ssh agent, I'm prompted to enter the passphrase for the key, and when i do things work normally.
Does 'ssh bazaar. launchpad. net' ask you to enter the passphrase? Do you perhaps have ssh configured not to prompt, or perhaps you have a broken ssh-agent?