[sylpheed:31813] Re: Irregular hangs, after enabling certificates

[Celejar]

On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 12:59:12 -0300
John Coppens <john at jcoppens.com> wrote:

> 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,

I use Sylpheed with Gmail POP without any errors.  What Thawte
certificates are you referring to?  I don't recall installing any.
Which Sylpheed menu option does this?

Sorry for the ignorant questions; I'm just trying to understand this a
bit better.

> John

Celejar
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