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Keychain Error: Problem adding; giving up
Getting an error after migrating to a new system when adding private keys to ssh-agent
/usr/bin/keychain -q --nogui $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa.key
* Error: Problem adding; giving up
Manually adding the key shows a permission problem
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa.key
chmod 700 /home/pwi/.ssh/*.key
In .bashrc
/usr/bin/keychain -q --nogui $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa1.key
/usr/bin/keychain -q --nogui $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa2.key
source $HOME/.keychain/$HOSTNAME-sh
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for me killing ssh-agent helped. I'm using wsl2 with windows 11

ssh-agent -k

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