Re: Occasional hangs - maybe actually old problem: Was: Several minor issues

[Jack <ostroffjh users sourceforge net>]

On 2018.09.07 18:05, Jack wrote:
> Mainly just FYI at this point, unless anyone else has any more  
> concrete ideas than I do.
>
> On 2018.08.28 15:13, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> > Hi Jack:
> >
> > Am 28.08.18 20:57 schrieb(en) Jack via balsa-list:
> [snip other issues...]
> > > 3) For the past several weeks, I have been noticing an occasional,  
> > > unpredictable hang/pause in Balsa when downloading messages.  […]   
> > > I'm looking for any thoughts on how to troubleshoot this better.
> > You might want to run Balsa with all debug messages  
> > (G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all) or only low-level networking messages  
> > (G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=libnetclient) enabled and check if anything  
> > unusual happens with the problematic mailbox.  Remember that  
> > passwords will be printed in the output, so please sanitise any  
> > files before posting them.
> I've done this, but seen no messages that would indicate any  
> particular problem.  However, the hangs mostly seem to be after Balsa  
> finished downloading a message (often the last downloaded line in the  
> DEBUG is a '.')  so I'm now wondering if the hang might be caused by  
> checking gpg signatures - and like magic, I have had this issue in  
> the past, and there was a thread in February about it.  You provided  
> some notes on checking gpg configuration, which I'll have to read and  
> follow up on again.  I have 504 "pub" keys (from "gpg -k") and I  
> wouldn't consider that a particularly large keyring - or am I wrong?   
> (Browsing through the list of keys, I suspect most got there by due  
> to messages from various mailing lists.)
>
> However, two more questions:  First, as I said in February, why would  
> this check (or whatever is currently happening) completely block all  
> Balsa activity?  Second, in my Inbox, I do have "Decrypt and check  
> signatures automatically" set to "Never" so it's obviously not  
> exactly the same problem I was having back them.
>
> Anyway - I've updated several bits of my gpg configuration, and I  
> know I've got lots to go, but even if I'm imagining it, I seem to be  
> having less of the hangs, but not totally gone yet.
>
> Jack
OK, I've now run with G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=crypto and seen the hangs with  
no crypto related output at all to console.  Does that exonerate any  
gpg stuff?  If so, where do I look next?

Jack