Version: (using KDE KDE 3.2.3) Installed from: RedHat RPMs OS: Linux Attempting to connect to a couple of mail servers using SSL and TLS for IMAP and POP3 causes the io_slave to eat all available CPU indefinitely and the caller (both Kmail and Konqueror) to block. It should (I assume) ask if I want to accept these sites' self signed certificates. These two mail sites are not related to each other, and other mail clients (Thunderbird and Evolution) work with them. I used the KDE packages from KDE-redhat.sourceforge.net for Redhat 9. I have OpenSSL 0.9.7a, if that matters.
Just did this at home, this time with KDE 3.1 (the standard one that came with RedHat 9) and openssl 0.9.7. Same problem. In addition, using secure smtp also hung in the same way (did not try this with KDE 3.2, but I will if anyone wants me to). Maybe it's the openssl version.
This problem is affecting Kopete in KDE 3.2 as well. When attempting to sign onto MSN (which apparantly uses the https kio component), the spawned slave spins it's wheels and gets nothing done. However, signing onto ICQ does not use https and does not have this problem.
Created attachment 6933 [details] Strace of the kio process that was spinning its wheels Ran strace -tt -p 23565 -o kopete.trace where 23565 was the kdeinit: kio_http https process The original file was a lot bigger, but the bug tracker would not accept it.
Using the kio_sftp compnonent does not have this problem, so it's not SSL stuff, perhaps.
Not a KMail problem, it seems.
I have fixed this by removing the 'Use entropy file' setting under Crypto/OpenSSL in the Control Center. I had set it to /dev/urandom, incorrectly apparantly.