mandos general protection error ...

[Teddy Hogeborn]

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Dick Middleton <dick at fouter.net> writes:

> Teddy Hogeborn wrote:
>
>> I think the time has come for some more heavy duty debugging.  Could
>> you please do the following:
>
>> make run-server SERVERARGS="--no-dbus --servicename=Test"
>
> Rather than do this on a 'production' system I installed the server on a 
> different (sid) system.

This is fine.

>  It shows the same symptoms as before.

Right.  Let's see how the local run-server and run-client works.

> So I started the debugging instructions as root.  Unfortunately it
> doesn't complete the key generation process (at the line above).  It
> emits all the dots and dashes and then just waits ... and waits and
> waits.  Seems to be waiting on gpg. No output files are opened in
> keydir. No errors reported.
>
> If I run mandos-keygen manually I get the same affect.  It creates
> stuff in /tmp.
>
> What do you suggest?

I suggest you keep waiting; GnuPG is like that when it generates keys
- - it takes ages, especially on an idle system without much entropy to
contribute to the randomness pool.  I just timed it on a system here,
and the key creation took eight minutes.  If you recently generated
keys, it might take much longer, since its entropy pool might be
depleted.  Please note that it first prints dots, dashes, etc, and
then a newline, and *seems* to stop completely - THIS IS NORMAL.  Then
it takes ages doing apparently nothing whatsoever, but eventually it
does get started again with the dots etc, and finally finishes.

/Teddy Hogeborn

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