[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#789246: Bug#789246: FTBFS amd64

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Tue 2015-09-15 14:10:57 -0400, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 09:28:18PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 02:47:39PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>> > 
>> > It looks to me like the hang is happening in the code that calibrates
>> > the s2k count in the agent. (from agent/protect.c)
>> > 
>> > I've tried to extract the logic from this code and make a simple
>> > executable that just does it (without invoking gcrypt or anything else
>> > -- it's just calibrating cpu cycles and walltime clocks.
>> 
>> So that makes me wonder if it's somehow related to #785557.
>> csail has just been updated on Saturday to have the workaround,
>> while the previous build was the day before.
>> 
>> The qemu issue was seen om more hosts than csail, so I suspect
>> it's not the problem.
>
> So I just ran an old t-protect binary I had around, and it works
> now.  I'm just going to assume it was the qemu issue for now.

OK, sounds like a plan.  If it pops up again, we'll know where to look
next :)

thanks for looking into it in more detail!

       --dkg