> Can you share the output of the following command (run as your normal > user): > > systemctl --user cat ssh-agent.socket ssh-agent.service
I get the exact same output as yours, no local overrides here.
> If your output looks the same as above, can you share the output of:
>
> systemctl --user status ssh-agent.socket ssh-agent.service
>
> That would let me see what your local process supervisor believes is
> going on with this service.
○ ssh-agent.socket - OpenSSH Agent socket
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/ssh-agent.socket; enabled; preset:
enabled) Active: inactive (dead)
Triggers: ● ssh-agent.service
Docs: man:ssh-agent(1)
Listen: /run/user/1000/openssh_agent (Stream)
× ssh-agent.service - OpenSSH Agent
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/ssh-agent.service; static)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2025-04-18 16:26:54 CEST; 2
weeks 5 days ago Duration: 18min 13.762s
Invocation: 9e8c3dc015d64454810ba837d4433547
TriggeredBy: ○ ssh-agent.socket
Docs: man:ssh-agent(1)
Main PID: 3932465 (code=exited, status=2)
Mem peak: 1.9M
CPU: 24ms
> How are you restarting the ssh-agent user service?
I used to restart it with:
systemctl --user restart ssh-agent.service
But since I got bitten by the behaviour I reported, I stopped using the systemd
unit and now start the agent directly from my user ~/.profile:
# Start SSH agent
export SSH_AUTH_SOCK="${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR:-/run/user/$(id -u)}/openssh_agent"
if [ ! -e "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ]; then
ssh-agent -a "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" >/dev/null
fi
For debugging purposes, I can disable that temporarily and get back to the
systemd unit, maybe try to get more debug output from it.
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