byobu breaks ssh-agent SSH_AUTH_SOCK

Binary package hint: byobu

I have "keychain" (a package) being launched in ~/.bash_profile:
It sets up environment vars for ssh-agent and gpg-agent.

However, after screen/byobu has been started (after keychain) in bash_profile, the environment is not valid anymore for at least SSH_AUTH_SOCK.
There's code in byobu-janitor:

# Establish ssh-agent socket, helps when reconnecting to a detached session
if [ -S "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ] && [ -w "$RUN" ]; then
        rm -f "$RUN/$PKG.ssh-agent"
        ln -sf "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" "$RUN/$PKG.ssh-agent"
fi

The same code is present in /usr/bin/byobu, after janitor has been called.

So, we're creating a link first (in janitor), then removing it forcefully in the byobu script.

It ends up with a symlink pointing to itself, at least for myself.

This results in "ssh-add" not being able to connect to an agent. You would have to start keychain or a similar process, again.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Mar 26 20:02:19 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: byobu 2.65-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-17.26-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
ScreenRC:

SourcePackage: byobu
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-17-generic i686