[cygwin] Re: OpenSSH 8.9p1-1 Connects successfully but then hangs - Killing ssh-agent resolves the issue

[Henry S. Thompson]

Jason Pyeron writes:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Henry S. Thompson
>> Sent: Friday, April 1, 2022 5:21 AM
>>
>> Jim Garrison via Cygwin writes:
>>
>> > My Cygwin ssh client stopped working... It would successfully connect to
>> > ...
>> There are reports out there of ssh-agent getting stuck: just out of
>> curiousity if this happens again, check to see if ssh-agent is using
>> 100% of a CPU.  If so then search for "ssh-agent" "100% CPU" to see

> I did not find much with that search. I found
> https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2010-January/183237.html but the
> issue description and resolution was useless.
>
> Do you have certain search results in mind? This happens to me
> several times a month - on multiple systems. Note this started
> within the past 3 years.

There are three distinct groups of possibly relevant threads, to do
with interactions between ssh-agent and one of
  ServerTree [no idea what that is]
  GitHub
  gnome-keyring-daemon

Also, if (my own case), I use gpg-agent maskerading as ssh-agent, and
_it_ has the 100% problem sometimes.

Of course, none of this is relevant if the OP's problem with ssh is
not co-occuring with ssh-agent chewing up an entire processor.

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