Tickets :: [#2672] IMP hangs in creation of new key-pairs with GPG

6.0.0-beta1

9/24/25

Summary	IMP hangs in creation of new key-pairs with GPG
Queue	IMP
Queue Version	4.0.4-RC2
Type	Bug
State	Resolved
Priority	1. Low
Owners	slusarz (at) horde (dot) org
Requester	wmark.horde (at) hurrikane (dot) de
Created	09/24/2005 (7305 days ago)
Due
Updated	10/07/2005 (7292 days ago)
Assigned	10/02/2005 (7297 days ago)
Resolved	10/07/2005 (7292 days ago)
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10/07/2005 05:55:52 AM	Michael Slusarz	Comment #8 State ⇒ Resolved	Reply to this comment
Warning implemented in HEAD and 4.0.5.

10/02/2005 01:43:56 PM	Chuck Hagenbuch	Assigned to Michael Slusarz State ⇒ Assigned

09/27/2005 07:59:02 AM	Jan Schneider	Comment #7	Reply to this comment
Maybe you should at least issue a warning that this action could take some time for now.

09/27/2005 06:46:10 AM	Michael Slusarz	Comment #6	Reply to this comment
Maybe system() or even passthru() will do the job of displaying output (in some PRE tags). No - PHP buffers output and, if using gzip compressed output buffering, this would be an absolute mess to get to work correctly (if even possible). definitely not worth the extremely limited benefit we may get out of it.

09/24/2005 11:55:20 AM	wmark (dot) horde (at) hurrikane (dot) de	Comment #5	Reply to this comment
Maybe system() or even passthru() will do the job of displaying output (in some PRE tags). Does it matter how long it actually takes? Users tend to becoming nervous if something does not change within 10-20 seconds, so you have to show them their wishes are executed. This ticket's topic should be "IMP seems to be hanging at creation ....". (It is a development and testserver and GPG works very well on that machine, Entropy might be the cause.)

09/24/2005 11:12:27 AM	Jan Schneider	Comment #4	Reply to this comment
I started the generation process and closed the window by accident. The time I gained by that was good to eat something. ~20 minutes passed and I logged in again to start the process again - to my surprise there were the keys! The only explanation I have is that there is not enough entropy on the server. Is there anything running on that server, more users being logged in etc.? - Advise the user to go eating something while generating takes place This shouldn't happen on a sane system. - or display a popup with GPG's output in order to show him the status. This is probably not possible with PHP.

09/24/2005 10:41:34 AM	wmark (dot) horde (at) hurrikane (dot) de	Comment #3	Reply to this comment
After having written the bug report I logged in again to reproduce this issue with increased verbosity level of debugging. I started the generation process and closed the window by accident. The time I gained by that was good to eat something. ~20 minutes passed and I logged in again to start the process again - to my surprise there were the keys! In order to ensure everything was do correctly I have logged out and in with another user and started again generating the key-pairs and waited for about 6 minutes - no pair appeared. But there is one instance of GPG running, abviously invoked by IMP. (It ended successfully after ~20 minutes.) Now, as I believe the keys will be generated successfully this time (again), I would recommend you one of the following: - Advise the user to go eating something while generating takes place - or display a popup with GPG's output in order to show him the status.

09/24/2005 09:20:26 AM	Jan Schneider	Comment #2 State ⇒ Feedback	Reply to this comment
Works fine here. Try to track down, where it's hanging.

09/24/2005 09:04:55 AM	wmark (dot) horde (at) hurrikane (dot) de	Comment #1 Priority ⇒ 1. Low Type ⇒ Bug Summary ⇒ IMP hangs in creation of new key-pairs with GPG Queue ⇒ IMP State ⇒ Unconfirmed	Reply to this comment
Activate GPG/PGP support and ensure it works by sending some encrypted emails (and receive some). Switch to an other account which has no imported keys and try letting IMP generating some for your. IMP will hang. You will wait forever for any change or new page.