[Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#694635: gnupg: gpg froze with a zombie after a Ctrl-C (intr character)

[Werner Koch]

On Fri,  7 Dec 2012 16:31, vincent at vinc17.net said:

> When it receives a SIGINT, gpg should quit immediately (possibly
> after some clean-up). The problem is that gpg was still running.

Like Mutt, gpg has its own sigint handler.  It does some important
cleanups.

> The fact that gpg has a zombie child means at least a problem with gpg.

A zombie is not per se a problem.  It just means that gpg has not yet
called the waitpid.  This may happen if a SIGINT was received while
reading from the keyserver helper.  Gpg is still a child of Mutt (I
assume 5216 is the Mutt process) and thus Mutt might still be reading
from gpg.  You should include information about Mutt and best an lsof of
those processes.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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