Cannot clone repository with ssh on Windows

[chamhaw]

Describe the bug Cannot clone repository with ssh from github or other platform.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Start ssh-agent for git bash
2. Add pub key to github
3. ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_PRIVATE
4. Create dev environment, try to clone with ssh
5. The message is in the Screenshots part.
6. Start ssh-agent on WSL2(Ubuntu) which is integrated with docker desktop
7. ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_PRIVATE
8. retry step 4 and got the same as step 5

Expected behavior git clone git@github.com:argoproj/argo-rollouts.git could work

Screenshots

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• Windows11 Pro 22H2
• WSL2(Ubuntu 22.04.1)

Version of Docker Desktop:
Version 4.14.0 (91374) docker version

Client: Docker Engine - Community
 Version:           20.10.21
 API version:       1.41
 Go version:        go1.18.7
 Git commit:        baeda1f
 Built:             Tue Oct 25 18:02:21 2022
 OS/Arch:           linux/amd64
 Context:           default
 Experimental:      true

Server: Docker Desktop
 Engine:
  Version:          20.10.21
  API version:      1.41 (minimum version 1.12)
  Go version:       go1.18.7
  Git commit:       3056208
  Built:            Tue Oct 25 18:00:19 2022
  OS/Arch:          linux/amd64
  Experimental:     false
 containerd:
  Version:          1.6.9
  GitCommit:        1c90a442489720eec95342e1789ee8a5e1b9536f
 runc:
  Version:          1.1.4
  GitCommit:        v1.1.4-0-g5fd4c4d
 docker-init:
  Version:          0.19.0
  GitCommit:        de40ad0

docker info

Client:
 Context:    default
 Debug Mode: false
 Plugins:
  app: Docker App (Docker Inc., v0.9.1-beta3)
  buildx: Docker Buildx (Docker Inc., v0.9.1)
  compose: Docker Compose (Docker Inc., v2.12.2)
  dev: Docker Dev Environments (Docker Inc., v0.0.3)
  extension: Manages Docker extensions (Docker Inc., v0.2.13)
  sbom: View the packaged-based Software Bill Of Materials (SBOM) for an image (Anchore Inc., 0.6.0)
  scan: Docker Scan (Docker Inc., v0.21.0)

Server:
 Containers: 0
  Running: 0
  Paused: 0
  Stopped: 0
 Images: 0
 Server Version: 20.10.21
 Storage Driver: overlay2
  Backing Filesystem: extfs
  Supports d_type: true
  Native Overlay Diff: true
  userxattr: false
 Logging Driver: json-file
 Cgroup Driver: cgroupfs
 Cgroup Version: 1
 Plugins:
  Volume: local
  Network: bridge host ipvlan macvlan null overlay
  Log: awslogs fluentd gcplogs gelf journald json-file local logentries splunk syslog
 Swarm: inactive
 Runtimes: io.containerd.runc.v2 io.containerd.runtime.v1.linux runc
 Default Runtime: runc
 Init Binary: docker-init
 containerd version: 1c90a442489720eec95342e1789ee8a5e1b9536f
 runc version: v1.1.4-0-g5fd4c4d
 init version: de40ad0
 Security Options:
  seccomp
   Profile: default
 Kernel Version: 5.15.68.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2
 Operating System: Docker Desktop
 OSType: linux
 Architecture: x86_64
 CPUs: 4
 Total Memory: 7.761GiB
 Name: docker-desktop
 ID: QXA4:RJXE:E6QF:3ZEW:PKPF:RAQR:IXEE:OISQ:NPJP:DEVZ:UMSW:OXB7
 Docker Root Dir: /var/lib/docker
 Debug Mode: false
 HTTP Proxy: http.docker.internal:3128
 HTTPS Proxy: http.docker.internal:3128
 No Proxy: hubproxy.docker.internal
 Registry: https://index.docker.io/v1/
 Labels:
 Experimental: false
 Insecure Registries:
  hubproxy.docker.internal:5000
  127.0.0.0/8
 Live Restore Enabled: false

WARNING: No blkio throttle.read_bps_device support
WARNING: No blkio throttle.write_bps_device support
WARNING: No blkio throttle.read_iops_device support
WARNING: No blkio throttle.write_iops_device support

Additional context Start ssh agent for git bash on windows (~/.profile)

env=~/.ssh/agent.env

agent_load_env () { test -f "$env" && . "$env" >| /dev/null ; }

agent_start () {
    (umask 077; ssh-agent >| "$env")
    . "$env" >| /dev/null ; }

agent_load_env

# agent_run_state: 0=agent running w/ key; 1=agent w/o key; 2=agent not running
agent_run_state=$(ssh-add -l >| /dev/null 2>&1; echo $?)

if [ ! "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ] || [ $agent_run_state = 2 ]; then
    agent_start
    ssh-add
elif [ "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ] && [ $agent_run_state = 1 ]; then
    ssh-add
fi

unset env

Start ssh agent for WSL2(~/.profile)

SSH_ENV="$HOME/.ssh/agent-environment"
function start_agent {
    echo "Initialising new SSH agent..."
    /usr/bin/ssh-agent | sed 's/^echo/#echo/' > "${SSH_ENV}"
    echo succeeded
    chmod 600 "${SSH_ENV}"
    . "${SSH_ENV}" > /dev/null
}
# Source SSH settings, if applicable
if [ -f "${SSH_ENV}" ]; then
    . "${SSH_ENV}" > /dev/null
    ps -ef | grep ${SSH_AGENT_PID} | grep ssh-agent$ > /dev/null || {
        start_agent;
    }
else
    start_agent;
fi

[chamhaw]

Reolved. Maybe the docker documentation is not correct. Either git bash nor WSL2 cannot work. Only ssh-add on Windows can work.

PS C:\Users\hzh> Set-Service -Name ssh-agent -StartupType Manual
PS C:\Users\hzh> Start-Service ssh-agent
PS C:\Users\hzh> ssh-add -l
The agent has no identities.
PS C:\Users\hzh> ssh-add C:\Users\hzh\.ssh\id_ed25519
Identity added: C:\Users\hzh\.ssh\id_ed25519 (hzh@Win11-PC)
PS C:\Users\hzh>

[chamhaw]

But another issue.

fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
exit code 128

And sometimes hangs while cloning.

Preparing to clone inside a volume
Installing credential helpers... 
done
Cloning into '/com.docker.devenvironments.code'...

Cloning from both Powershell and Git Bash works well.

[ecator]

I have the similar problem. It will be stuck at Cloning into '/com.docker.devenvironments.code'...

When I entry the docker/desktop-git-helper container to run ssh -v -T git@github.com and the log will be stuck at below 👇

debug1: Server host key: ssh-ed25519 SHA256:+DiY3wvvV6TuJJhbpZisF/zLDA0zPMSvHdkr4UvCOqU
debug1: load_hostkeys: fopen /root/.ssh/known_hosts: No such file or directory
debug1: load_hostkeys: fopen /root/.ssh/known_hosts2: No such file or directory
debug1: load_hostkeys: fopen /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts2: No such file or directory
debug1: Host 'github.com' is known and matches the ED25519 host key.
debug1: Found key in /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts:12
debug1: rekey out after 134217728 blocks
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug1: rekey in after 134217728 blocks

[ecator]

I have come up with a temporary solution. Using the https://xxx when creating environment and it will success. Open in vscode and start a terminal so you can change the repository url like this 👇

git remote set-url origin git@github.com:xxxx

[karstenjakobsen]

Still hangs. Did someone find a fix?

[naanlizard]

Hanging still, anything?

[ciid87]

still hanging