Re: possible BUG while doing gpg --gen-key

[Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@xs4all.nl>]

Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 04:55:20 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 14:57:17 +0200 Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>> Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
>>>> Now it works:
>>> Stranger even:
>>>
>>> With audio-entropyd, rngd active and the netdev-random patch working I
>>> cannot reproduce the crash. Even after a fresh boot.
>> It would really help if your oops stack trace wasn't truncated.  Can you
>> see if you can generate a complete one using a recent kernel?  Enabling
>> CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER and disabling CONFIG_4K_STACKS might help in this.
>>
> 
> So... what's happening here?  Did the trail go cold?

Well, I just rebooted the box for an other problem (see
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8377 for details) and did a
fresh try:

 strace gpg --gen-key 2> ~/gpg.txt

Oddly enough the action completes successfully. This is with both
audio-entropyd and rngd running and netdev-random patch in the kernel.
The very same thing triggered the bug without problem before trying with
the mentioned deamons stopped.
Now even doing rm -rf .gnupg/ does not help in reproducing.

So yes, all is OK, and no, I don't know why.