On Monday 05 January 2009 20:27:48 Vandaman wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
There is some obscure bug that probably interacts with something else to cause this - it's certainly not normal behaviour.
I've talked to several people with quite deep knowledge of KMail (over a period of 8 months), yet no-one could tell me why this occurs. In fact, until Chris contacted me about his problem on a Mandriva install I had thought that the bug was only in the Fedora package. Now it seems that it may not be.
Have you thought of going to the upstream mailing list of gpg or kmail and asking there? If the "problem" is not distro-specific it is likely to have been met by someone upstream.
It would also be worth giving the Fedora/Mandriva lists a look to see if the problem has been reported there. If the problem has not been reported upstream or in those distros then it is likely to be something you have done.
Yes, I've discussed it on both Fedora and Mandriva lists. I think it's the old problem of intermittant faults being difficult to pinpoint. As I said, I've done many, many installs and setups of kmail + gpg, yet never met this problem until F9, and I can't see any difference between the setup there and the setup on this laptop where it works, so it's not surprising that people haven't seen it.
The only gpg ML I found was PGP-Basics@yahoogroups.com. I can't help feeling that there should be a better list than that. Maybe I hit bad timing. I'll try them again.
Anne