Re: keychain service--hanging in ssh-add

["Karl M" <karlm30 at hotmail dot com>]

> From: Chuck
> Subject: Re: keychain service--hanging in ssh-add
> Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 08:29:09 -0500
>
> Karl M wrote:
> > Hi All...
> >
> > I tracked it down. It is not a problem with keychain, openssh or cygwin.
> >
> > Occasionally, on this particular laptop (XP SP2), the user can reboot,
> > log in and start a bash shell before all of the services are running or
> > while they are still starting. Gotta love Microsoft. So that was causing
> > the problem.
> >
> > I have a little more handshaking to prevent the problem now.
> >
> > I think the keychain service stuff just is about ready for a wider
> > audience.
> >
> > Corinna...I have not heard back from Hack after I sent him an e-mail a
> > week ago. I am happy to support an updated keychain package, or just
> > place my files in the archives. We can wait a while longer to see if we
> > hear from Hack. Just let me know how you would like to proceed.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > ...Karl
> >
> >
> >
>
> Don't know if this is related but a few days ago after installing
> cygwin-1.5.13-1, and cygrunsrv-1.0.1-1, ssh-add started hanging on me
> the first time I try to use it. If I simply CTRL+C it, and try again it
> works. This happens consistently. I've tried with pdksh (my default
> shell) and bash. Only seems to happen the first time I launch ssh-add
> after rebooting, but I don't think it's related to MS services not
> running. My PC can be up and running for hours first, and it'll still
> happen. Any ideas?
I think it may be related to your update to cygwin-1.5.13-1. This is a 
symptom that I was seeing also, but only on one machine (XP SP2 laptop) and 
only on some reboots. Please try a snapshot and report the results.

Another experiment is to reboot, and wait for the disk activity to stop. 
That is, to wait until the reboot is really finished. Then try ssh-add. That 
would be worth trying with both 1.5.13-1 and with a snapshot.

Please tell me about your system configuration. Are you running ssh-agent 
and or keychain as a service?

What may be going on is that after boot-up, the machine is busy and the new 
pipe code slows down (see postings from cgf). For me, this was causing a 
race at startup. When I prevented the race, it prevented the problem...but I 
don't think I found the problem, just sent it back into hiding.

Thanks,

...Karl



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