enigmail causes thunderbird to freeze

[Matthäus Brandl]

Binary package hint: enigmail

While thunderbird/engimail is waiting for pinentry-gtk2 to return the passphrase, thunderbird occasionally (about 1 in 10 times) freezes. A dialogue pops up asking whether to cancel or shut thunderbird down (kill it).
This is very nasty, as it takes pinentry's focus away. I can't return to pinentry neither using Alt-Tab key combination nor using compiz, but only by clicking on the according area in the panel (in my case gnome do). Once returned to pinentry it has sent my partial passphrase back to GnuPG which of course resulted as wrong and I need to retype my passphrase. (see #515608)

enigmail shouldn't freeze thunderbird, both should wait for pinentry to return the passphrase.

This bug seems related to #150057, but in this case signing etc actually works without problems almost all the time, but sometimes usability becomes quite shortened. Only in some very rare cases all three attempts fail and I have to start all over again.

% LC_ALL=C apt-cache policy pinentry-gtk2 thunderbird enigmail
pinentry-gtk2:
  Installed: 0.7.6-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.7.6-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.7.6-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
thunderbird:
  Installed: 2.0.0.23+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.0.0.23+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.0.0.23+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
enigmail:
  Installed: 2:0.95.7-1ubuntu2
  Candidate: 2:0.95.7-1ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 2:0.95.7-1ubuntu2 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Running an up-to-date Karmic

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

does this ever occur in trusty or later?

enigmail works fine for me in trusty.

[Matthäus Brandl (matthaeus)]

I don't use neither Thunderbird nor enigmail anymore, so no idea. Sorry

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Thanks, I'll close this as unconfirmed.