fabric/fabric — Issue #502: Fatal error: lost ssh-agent
Author: jaraco
Created: 2011-12-16 21:39:52+00:00
State: open

I recently upgraded to Fabric 1.3.3 (from 1.2.2). I see it now uses ssh instead of paramiko. It seems now I can no longer administer my hosts. When I try to connect, I'm prompted for a password. This apparently means that the new ssh library doesn't recognize my private key nor my SSH agent running. After I enter the correct password for the target host, the session terminates with "Fatal error: lost ssh-agent". This error is probably an upstream bug, but I'm logging it here first until I confirm.

I'm using Windows 7 SP1 with PAgeant 0.60 64-bit.

There were some issues with Paramiko and the ssh agent on 64-bit, but these were being tracked in the redmine tracker. I'll try to get up to speed on the GitHub tracker and link them as appropriate.