[Bug 337760] [NEW] kmail hangs while sending mails, when gpg hangs

[firelala]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: kmail

There was a left over lock-file in my .gnupg directory from some crash,
blocking all gpg-related activity. This caused kmail to freeze, even if
I didn't want to send encrypted or signed emails.

The backtrace (which I have unfortunately not saved) traced the problem
to gpg. strace showed, that kmail (or gpg itself?) repeats trying to use
gpg indefinitely (each time a call to select times out, then it starts
over) freezing kmail/kontact completely.

Even if the original cause is not related to kmail, the application
shouldn't freeze. Either it should give an error message after some
fixed timeout, or try to recover otherwise. Maybe this is a problem with
gpg/gpgme?

I'm using the latest kmail 1.11.0 (KDE4.2) from the backports repository
for intrepid, gpg 1.4.9 and gpgme 1.1.6.

** Affects: kdepim (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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kmail hangs while sending mails, when gpg hangs
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/337760
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