Seahorse cannot set up SSH keys for login servers

[Asa Zernik]

Binary package hint: seahorse

I just updated to the Natty Alpha. When I try creating an SSH key and setting it up, I get an error on the set-up (putting the public key on the server) stage. The error message is as follows:

Couldn't configure Secure Shell keys on remote computer.

** (process:29153): WARNING **: couldn't open fd 23: Bad file descriptor

** (process:29154): WARNING **: couldn't open fd 23: Bad file descriptor

** (process:29155): WARNING **: couldn't open fd 23: Bad file descriptor
Permission denied (gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic,publickey,keyboard-interactive).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: seahorse 2.32.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-5.32-generic 2.6.38-rc6
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-5-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Mar 29 13:45:09 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/seahorse
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110302)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: seahorse
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Mathias Bøhn Grytemark (mboehn)]

I have the same problem.
Using Natty beta 1.

** (process:2508): WARNING **: couldn't open fd 23: Bad file descriptor
Permission denied, please try again.

** (process:2509): WARNING **: couldn't open fd 23: Bad file descriptor
Permission denied, please try again.

** (process:2510): WARNING **: couldn't open fd 23: Bad file descriptor
Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive).

This happens before I'm asked for the password.

Package: seahorse 2.32.0-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386

[Paul Ni (nikulinpi-gmail)]

Can reproduce

[cmosetick (cmosetick)]

I have the same issue on a clean install of Natty beta 2.

[Adam Dingle (adam-yorba)]

I'm seeing this too (on Fedora 15, actually). I've filed a bug upstream here:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648224

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, thanks Adam for sending it to GNOME

[Michael Saunders (usalabs14)]

Above shows "Could't open fd 23", mine show as "Couldn't open fd 27", but all is the same error.

I upgraded from 10.10 to 11.04. 10.10 had no problems with seahorse.

[Lionel FELICITE (deogracia)]

Hi,
I'm on 11.04 and I've got this issue too.

You can use the "ssh-copy-id" as a workaround until it's fixed

For example : ssh-copy-id "user@server -p $PORT$"

-p $PORT$ is necessary if you don't use the default port (22)

[Atasa Rossios (atasa-rossios)]

I have the same problem with natty official release... I also did everything via command line (ssh-copy-id) and the problem now is that can't login to remote server...
It is OK to the same procedure from another machine with maverick though

[Human Ashrafi (human-ashrafi)]

I had exactly the same error. I solved it by reinstall gnome-keyring since the autostart applications where somehow messed up.

dpkg --force-all -P gnome-keyring
aptitude install gnome-keyring

So I got my startup file /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-keyring-ssh.desktop back and gnome-session-properties showed gnome-keyring-ssh in the list again.

What I did before was to manually add the gnome-keyring-ssh with "/usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --start --components=ssh" as exec command with use of gnome-session-properties. This command seemed to work well since I saw that gnome-keyring-daemon --start reported SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/keyring-IzvzoK/ssh.
I have no idea why that didn't work and reinstalling gnome-keyring with the missing autostart scripts worked. I guess I must have missed some extra Options like "X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=Initialization", hence the ssh-agent was registered to the system too late within the startup progress. And i don't know why the files were missing in first place either.

[Christopher Stevens (stevens-chrisj)]

I have tried this resolution on two Ubuntu 11.04 Desktop x64 machines with no success. I ran:

sudo dpkg --force-all -P gnome-keyring
sudo aptitude install gnome-keyring

Is there something else that must be done?