[Enigmail] Enigmail hanging after unclean gpg shutdown

[Georgi Hristozov]

Hi,

I noted an issue with Enigmail and the way that it calls gpg. I had a
crash of my mail client. After I fired it up again and tried to access
my keyring, Enigmail hanged. I had to kill the gpg process in order to
wake up Thunderbird. The problem was that before the unclean shutdown of
Thunderbird, gpg has left some .lock files in my ~/.gnupg directory. And
every attempt to manually run gpg leads to the following:

gpg: waiting for lock (held by XXXX - probably dead) ...

And Enigmail waits for gpg to get responsive. And it can wait until the
user deletes the locks by hand. :) It would be nice if Enigmail stops
waiting in such situations and warns the user about the .lock files.
Don't you think so? :)

Best regards,
Georgi Hristozov

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