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I just updated my ssh key and added a passphrase, however it constantly nags me for it now, such as when I do a git (or mercurial hg) push. ssh-agent is running:

xxx  1303  1118  0 09:16 ?  00:00:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent
   /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session 
   /usr/bin/im-launch mate-session

I tried ssh-add:

> ssh-add
Identity added: /home/…/.ssh/id_rsa (/home/…/.ssh/id_rsa)
Enter passphrase for /home/…/.ssh/id_ed25519: 
Could not add identity "/home/…/.ssh/id_ed25519": 
    communication with agent failed

What is missing? 16.04 Ubuntu Mate, in case it matters.

Gringo Suave
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Edit 2018:

This was resolved in gnome-keyring by wrapping ssh-agent recently so the workarounds should not be needed anymore and everything should work out of the box.

Original workarounds for older systems:

/run/user/1000/keyring/ssh is path of Gnome keyring (seahorse), which does not support Ed25519 keys. There are two possibilities:

  1. Do not use ED25519 keys and use RSA (which should be good enough)

  2. Run real ssh-agent in your startup scripts (~/.xsession) using

     eval `ssh-agent`
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