I am using chef-12.1 and facing issue related to "ERROR: Net::SSH::Authentication::AgentError: could not get identity count". Here is what i am trying.
[root@home-1 installer]# knife bootstrap 9.118.36.151 -x root -P test01 -N home-1
Doing old-style registration with the validation key at /root/.chef/chef-validator.pem...
Delete your validation key in order to use your user credentials instead
Connecting to 9.118.36.151
ERROR: Net::SSH::Authentication::AgentError: could not get identity count
However I have passwordless setup for root user in 9.118.36.151
Not sure, what is going wrong. Can some one help on this.
That means it thinks there is an active ssh-agent process (i.e. $SSH_AUTH_SOCK is set) but is unable to communicate with it. Your agent might have crashed or been restarted and you need to fix your environment variable(s). You can also just remove the env var so it doesn't try to use the agent at all.