[sshmenu] Applet cannot find SSH_AUTH_SOCK

[Grzegorz S. <gst...@gm...>]

Hello,

I'm using gnome-sshmenu-applet 3.18 from Fedora 14 repos, and recently
I'm getting the "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK is not set. Is the ssh-agent running?"
error when trying to connect to places. The agent process is running
and the environment variable is actually set: I can use SSH with
forwarding without problems "by hand" (calling ssh from a terminal),
but it looks that the program cannot access ENV['SSH_AUTH_SOCK'] in
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/sshmenu.rb -- when I try things like
alert() on the whole ENV array, the variable is not there, even though
I can print using "puts ENV['SSH_AUTH_SOCK']" from an external test
script without problems. Recently some Ruby packages have been updated
(like ruby-glib2, ruby-gtk2, as well as ruby itself and ruby-libs) and
I think the updates coincide with the problem. Has anyone else seen
this on Fedora?

Regards,
GS
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Grzegorz Staniak <gstaniak [at] gmail _dot_ com>