ksshaskpass hangs indefinitely at login

[Kevin Rogers]

Binary package hint: ksshaskpass

After upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 (from 9.04) ksshaskpass prompts me for my wallet password at login (and ssh key password if necessary) and then hangs indefinitely. I use keychain to load my SSH keys at login.

The only way I have found to get past the hang is to log in to a console and kill the ssh-add process that called ssh-askpass, then my KDE session continues with the login process normally.

Once logged in, if I call keychain from a terminal, ksshaskpass prompts me for my wallet password and my SSH keys seems to load properly.

[Kevin Rogers (kevin-rogers)]

To check, I installed ssh-askpass and tried using this, which worked perfectly. I then switched back to ksshaskpass and the above problem returned.

[Tais P. Hansen (taisph)]

This happens on Ubuntu Natty as well.

[Scarlett Gately Moore (scarlettmoore)]

This bug is very old, if it is still an issue please update the bug with information from a supported release.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for ksshaskpass (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]