Re: Gnus hangs when calling gpg

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Wed, 26 Feb 2014 16:45:31 +0000 (UTC) Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr> wrote: 

JC> On a fresh install, gnus hangs whenever it invokes gpg with:
JC>   call-process("/usr/bin/gpg" nil (t nil) nil "--with-colons" "--list-config")
JC>   apply(call-process "/usr/bin/gpg" nil (t nil) nil ("--with-colons"
JC> "--list-config"))
JC>   epg-configuration()
JC>   (epg-check-configuration (epg-configuration))

JC> This happens when I try to byte-compile the latest git (stuck at building
JC> deuglify.el) or load 'gnus-registry.

JC> Whether  it's a problem with gpg or Emacs, I don't know. I'm running Emacs
JC> 24.3.50.2 on Ubuntu 13.10. Any idea what I should try to investigate further ?

I would first disable gpg temporarily, if possible, and test.  If it
works, you can reenable it after Gnus is up.

I'd like to avoid this, especially at the byte-compile stage.  Looks
like ./lisp/epg-config.el:epg-configuration is doing the calling to
investigate GnuPG's capabilities.  That in turn is called by
mml-smime.el and mml1991.el and mml2015.el.

Daiki Ueno should probably comment on the necessity of this invocation,
since it can hang for many reasons and I would guess is not essential to
basic Gnus usage.

JC> Julien, stuck without gnus on his shiny new computer.

The humanity! :)

Ted