seahorse hangs generating PGP, if the computer does not have enough entropy

[Ara Pulido]

Binary package hint: seahorse

Steps to reproduce:

* Create a new clean virtual machine with Lucid
* Try to generate a PGP key using gpg --gen-key. You will receive the following error:

Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give
the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 300 more bytes)

* But, if you try to do the same with Seahorse, instead of showing the error to the users, it just hangs with the dialog "Generating key"

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: seahorse 2.29.91-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-17.26-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-17-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Mar 31 17:13:24 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100324)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: seahorse

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The issue doesn't seem to affect an action normal users will do often, not sure it should be team assigned this way, I would recommend sending the bug to GNOME there

[Pablo Castellano (pablocastellano)]

I was wondering if this is still an issue since some user has reported upstream that the issue has disappeared with seahorse 2.30.
If so, how can I reproduce it in order to fix it?

[Prototype-T4286 (t-ato)]

I have seahorse version 2.30 and this bug is still present for me. While the dialog box remains "generating key" if after a while I close it and restart the app I do see the key that was supposed to be made, and it functions as expected. So seahorse is creating working keys again, but the dialog box still hangs, at least that's what I experienced.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

is anybody still getting that issue in lucid?

[Alexander Gnodtke (gnodtke)]

I am running Lucid with Seahorse 2.30 and I get a similar behavior as described by Prototype-T4286.
The "Generating key" dialog hangs but I have the "My personal keys" tab selected and eventually my new PGP key shows up without having to restart the application. I terminate the "Generating key" dialog manually.

[Alexander Gnodtke (gnodtke)]

UPDATE to my last comment: I took another look at the problem (Lucid, Seahorse 2.30 on VBox) and it turns out that the dialog is not hanging. On my machine it takes between 5-20mins for the key to be generated the dialog then closes properly. The "cancel" button on the dialog does not work and closing the dialog via the "x" lets the key be generated in the background that is why it pops up eventually. Sorry for the wrong conclusion earlier.

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

On current precise, seahorse still doesn't show any information that more entropy is needed.