| Summary: | make GnuPG/PGP non-blocking | ||
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| Product: | [Unmaintained] kmail | Reporter: | Eray Ozkural <erayo> |
| Component: | encryption | Assignee: | kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | ana, bdonlan, david, germain.chazot, ismail, lkml, m.wege, Mark.Martinec, mss, psychonaut, spitalnik |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 1.3.2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Debian testing | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: | Mail on which KMail blocks | ||
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Description
Eray Ozkural
2001-10-06 14:48:06 UTC
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 06 October 2001 16:48 erayo@bilkent.edu.tr wrote: > Solution: GPG or PGP may hang but that should not cause KMail to > hang. A user interface to cancel the gpg message checking process > should be presented to the user. That way the user can proceed to > debug his encryption tool and the way it works with that particular > message. This should be done since when the child process crashes > there doesn't seem to be any way to abort. I'm working on making the GnuPG/PGP usage non-blocking. BTW if you kill the hanging GnuPG/PGP process you should be able to=20=20 continue working with KMail. Regards Ingo -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7v0+JGnR+RTDgudgRAhFVAKDe0Tccd+cBsLyp0IRmSAfhXcFp5QCgiUIv oja7q5fzQpCsrdZAH8iUzbk=3D =3DzcNg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- *** Bug 58501 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 30269 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 75030 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 81205 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Bug 55412 is a possible duplicate... perhaps someone with a better understanding could investigate. Bug 93843 is a possible duplicate... perhaps someone with a better understanding could investigate. *** Bug 55412 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 93843 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** can you not fix it? I don't want to vote I just want it to go away without spending $60 for a tech to come over! Thankyou, Angela Five years later, KDE 3.5.2, KMail 1.9.1, latest gpg,
gpgsm 1.9.20 (or 1.9.19) (FreeBSD 5.4 or 6.0 or 6.1, KDE from ports)
I would hope the problem were resolved by now. It is very annoying
when kmail gets stuck for minutes or forever when just stepping
through a list of messages, when one of them happens to have an
unverifiable signature. I'm observing this behaviour for the last
two or three years, various versions in use.
> Additional Comment #1 ... 2001-10-06 18:37
> I'm working on making the GnuPG/PGP usage non-blocking.
And? Any progress?
Killing a gpgsm process indeed unties a lock and lets KMail
come to life again. There should be an automatic timeout
or a manual abort option on the KMail side. Or prominent
instructions in the manual on how to unhang KMail.
I just wonder why KMail can't display something like "Processing Encryption" in the message pane and let the user continue or wait at their pleasure. I'm sure most people will say that a GUI being blocked is a broken design. Come to think of it, why is this only a wishlist item? It's broken! It's a bug! I don't get why this one seems to have gone ignored, either. > I just wonder why KMail can't display something like "Processing Encryption" in the message pane Because message display (and thus decryption) is a synchronous process right now and fixing that involves a redesign. Unfortunately nobody had the time/will to do that yet. > I don't get why this one seems to have gone ignored, either. It's not ignored, it's just not important enough for somebody to fix it. If it's important for you then either you have to fix it yourself (I know, no option for users) or find somebody that knows how to fix the problem. KDE 3.5.6, Debian 'sid' on amd64 (Athlon64 2GHz) and KMail hangs on most of signed mails. And this is STILL 'wishlist'... This is VERY, VERY annoying CRITICAL or BLOCKER but not wishlist. Five years passed since bug is known, MANY versions of KMail was released and simple bug still exists. I will be not suprised if KMail from KDE4 will still have it. I hope that one day Mailody will be enough usable to allow me forget about KMail. Created attachment 19722 [details]
Mail on which KMail blocks
This is one of mails on which KMail hangs for me. I have Koen Kooi gnupg key in
keyring so GnuPG does not have to fetch it.
Year passed - still nothing ;( Marcin, Is it still case with 3.5.9-2? Please update. Thanks, Kartik This bug is still present in KMail 1.10.1 from KDE 4.1.2. It can also make KDE dead-lock when there is a stable lock on the GnuPG files. This way my KMail was rendered unusable until I did find the stale lock. Please fix this bug, as it is really annoying. The mail viewer in KDE 4.4 is no non-blocking, so this is fixed. |