[Enigmail] Enigmail hanging after unclean gpg shutdown

[Patrick Brunschwig]

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Thomas Lecavelier wrote:
> Georgi Hristozov a écrit :
>> 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? :)
>>
> 
> My non-binding +1
> 
> It's exactly the problem I met last week (see my post from yesterday),
> and a message from enigmail explaining why it was failing would help me
> a lot.

The problem is that GnuPG doesn't tell in a proper (i.e. parseable,
unique, non-localized) way that it's waiting for a lock. Checking for
something like "gpg: waiting for lock" doesn't succeed because the
message is different if GnuPG is used e.g. in German or French.

- -Patrick
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