Strange KDE Problems

[Nathan Weston <nweston@hamilton.edu>]

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

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