ssh-agent no longer starts with X

["Jose M. Rus" <jmrus@euneo.com>]

Hi,

I've been using passwordless ssh connections in X with ssh-agent for 
months, but now ssh-agent doesn't start with X as before. In my initial 
configuration I asked the X server to use ssh-agent (with the line 
"use-ssh-agent" in /etc/X11/Xsession.options), then I installed the 
ssh-askpass-fullscreen package and finally I placed a symlink to ssh-add 
in ~/.kde/Autostart. It has worked until now, as soon as KDE started I 
was prompted the passphrase only once.

Now, I don't know why, in a xterm ssh-add complains that it "Could not 
open a connection to your authentication agent". It seems that ssh-agent 
hasn't been launched:

# ps ax | grep ssh
1091 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
1736 pts/2    S+     0:00 grep ssh

Any hints ?

The only change I can remember of is an update to the last Debian 
unstable after one month of computer inactivity (about 400 Mb download 
of packages).

Regards,
   Jose M. Rus.