[sylpheed:31812] Irregular hangs, after enabling certificates

John Coppens john at jcoppens.com
Wed Oct 10 00:59:12 JST 2007


Hello people.

Sylpheed hangs on 'reading messages from pop.gmail.com'. I tried to do a
few diagnostics, like attaching gdb to the 'hung' sylpheed and get the
following:

....
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/scim-1.0/1.4.0/Config/socket.so...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/scim-1.0/1.4.0/Config/socket.so
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/scim-1.0/1.4.0/IMEngine/socket.so...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/scim-1.0/1.4.0/IMEngine/socket.so
0xb782d46e in __read_nocancel () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0  0xb782d46e in __read_nocancel () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#1  0xb793ae7e in BIO_sock_should_retry () from /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0
#2  0x0850f000 in ?? ()
#3  0x00000007 in ?? ()
#4  0xb79cd920 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0
#5  0x0851de30 in ?? ()
#6  0x00000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) next
Single stepping until exit from function __read_nocancel, 
which has no line number information.

Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt.

=========
It seems that __read_nocancel never exits, a problem which I have seen
reported in several other programs. 

I believe this problem re-appeared (I reported it a long time ago), after
installing the Thawte certificates to pass the gmail authentication. The
hangs do not seem to appear if I remove the certificates, and 'Ok' the
initial error message.

I'd appreciate suggestions,
John


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