I was trying to run ssh-agent on my computer then I get the following error message.
unable to start ssh-agent service, error :1058

I don’t know what the error code means. Nor do i know what to do next. So, where do I start from here to gettings a solution for the issue? I don’t want to search the error on google and find a solution some else posted. I want to know how do we go about finding a solution ourself.

Note: Searching the internet gives me the solution on stackoverflow itself. In this case it was due to the ssh-agent service on windows not being started. But my question is how does one go from seeing that above error message and identifying the cause of the error like in this case.