GPG hanging

[Karl Auer]

On Thu, 2016-12-29 at 09:26 +1100, Karl Auer wrote:
> 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?

I fiddled around a bit and found that all use of the keyring was
hanging. I couldn't encrypt or decrypt, and this was after completely
killing all gpg and seahorse processes. I didn't feel like trying to
track down what lock file or whatever was causing the problem, so I
just rebooted (a bit of a sledgehammer) and now keys take about two
seconds to generate :-) Just logging out and back in might have worked
too.

If anyone knows a more delicate way to resolve the situation, do tell.

Regards, K.

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GPG fingerprint: A52E F6B9 708B 51C4 85E6 1634 0571 ADF9 3C1C 6A3A
Old fingerprint: E00D 64ED 9C6A 8605 21E0 0ED0 EE64 2BEE CBCB C38B