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For some reason, SSHKeychain started acting up on me today, eating up to and over 100% of CPU on my dual-core MacBookPro. ActivityMonitor indicated that it's a PowerPC application, so I found a Universal binary version. The problem is that (for some reason I'm not sure of yet) I could not terminate the old version of SSHKeychain in order to replace it. Something in the OS was firing it back up again.

After some tinkering, and a failed reboot attempt (locked up and hard reboot needed, argh!) I managed to think up a way of getting rid of the old application.

ps aux | grep 'SSH'

Note the PID of SSHKeychain... in my case 188, then kill and remove its .app folder.

kill -9 188 && rm -Rf /Applications/SSHKeychain.app/

Now you can install the new application without a problem. BTW, killing the process and trying to remove the folder in separate statements does not work.