I am running debian unstable. I just dist-upgraded tonight, and all of a sudden KDE won't start. KDM comes up fine, I login, and then X crashes and I end up back at the KDM login.
My .x-session-errors contains something along the lines of: /etc/kde2/kdm/Xsession: /usr/bin/ssh-agent kde2: no such file or directory. So, I looked in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/ and messed with 99xfree86-common_start.. the only thing I could get to work was just hard-coding it to "exec /usr/bin/kde2". However, if I do /usr/bin/ssh-agent kde2 from the console it works fine (except of course that kde complains b/c it can't find a running x session). So, I have everything running, except that I don't have ssh-agent... but even after reading the man page I'm not really sure what it does. Is ssh-agent important (nothing seems broken yet)... or useful if I knew what to do with it? (I do a lot of remote work over ssh) And, one way or another I'd like to fix this... even if ssh-agent is completely useless, it's the principle of the thing ;-) Any suggestions? Thanks, Nathan P.S. I'm not subscribed so please reply directly.
