GPG hanging

[Karl Auer]

I was using seahorse to generate some GPG keys - five of them, each
4096 bits. After about ten hours, I stopped the gpg2 processes, and
seahorse returned a suitable error for each one.

Why did this happen? The entropy pool (driven by rndg) was hovering
around 3000, so I don't think it's a lack of entropy. It's running on a
newish i7, so I doubt it's the processor, and there is no sign of high
CPU load. There were no dialogues around waiting for input, either.

Has anyone else experienced such long delays with gpg2?

Regards, K.

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Karl Auer (kauer at biplane.com.au)
http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer
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GPG fingerprint: E00D 64ED 9C6A 8605 21E0 0ED0 EE64 2BEE CBCB C38B
Old fingerprint: 3C41 82BE A9E7 99A1 B931 5AE7 7638 0147 2C3C 2AC4