kde 4.6-beta: ssh-agent not started on login anymore

[Achim Bohnet]

With 4.5 after login ssh-agent is running. After upgrade to 4.6-beta (was in beta1 too) pkgs there is no ssh-agent anymore

[Chris Samuel (chris-csamuel)]

I can confirm this with Kubuntu 10.10 x86-64, KDE 4.6.0 beta 2.

[Thomas Tanghus (tanghus)]

Confirmed on Kubuntu 10.10 KDE SC 4.5.90 (4.6 RC1)

is there a manual fix for this?

[Jari Salo (jari-salo)]

There seems to be new version of /etc/kde/kdm/Xsession file, which doesn't call global /etc/X11/Xsession directly anymore. I replaced this new file with an old version and ssh-agent is starting correctly now.

[Jari Salo (jari-salo)]

Correction to above. The path should be /etc/kde4/kdm/Xsession

[Hmpf (dns-hmpf)]

The gpg-agent is also not started, I guess the reason is the same.

[Chris Samuel (chris-csamuel)]

To demonstrate what broke, here is the diff from etckeeper for the change to that file:

    -kdm 4:4.5.4-0ubuntu1~maverick1~ppa1
    +kdm 4:4.5.85-0ubuntu1~maverick1~ppa1

diff --git a/kde4/kdm/Xsession b/kde4/kdm/Xsession
index aeecc77..e6ea8c2 100755
--- a/kde4/kdm/Xsession
+++ b/kde4/kdm/Xsession
@@ -42,5 +42,30 @@ case $SHELL in
     [ -f $HOME/.profile ] && . $HOME/.profile
     ;;
 esac
-# invoke global X session script
-. /etc/X11/Xsession
+
+[ -f /etc/xprofile ] && . /etc/xprofile
+[ -f $HOME/.xprofile ] && . $HOME/.xprofile
+
+for i in /etc/X11/Xresources/*; do
+ [ -f $i ] && xrdb -merge $i
+done
+[ -f $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xresources
+
+case $session in
+ "")
+ exec xmessage -center -buttons OK:0 -default OK "Sorry, $DESKTOP_SESSION is
+ ;;
+ failsafe)
+ exec xterm -geometry 80x24-0-0
+ ;;
+ custom)
+ exec $HOME/.xsession
+ ;;
+ default)
+ exec /usr/bin/startkde
+ ;;
+ *)
+ eval exec "$session"
+ ;;
+esac
+exec xmessage -center -buttons OK:0 -default OK "Sorry, cannot execute $session