Key creation problem with 2.1.16

[Kristian Fiskerstrand]

On 01/30/2017 06:36 PM, Werner Koch wrote:
>> Fwiw, I saw gpg-agents hanging on Windows XP, it regularly happened
>> while running the test suite.  I don't see those kind of problems with
>> our current Windows 8.1 test box.
> That might be possible also I never experienced that in the past.  For
> quite some time I have stopped test on XP, though.

This might also relate to our downstream issues in

Bug 605806 - app-crypt/gnupg-2.1.17-r1: test hangs
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=605806
strace of gpg-agent shows
futex(0x7f921a2c9200, FUTEX_WAIT_BITSET_PRIVATE|FUTEX_CLOCK_REALTIME, 0,
NULL, 0xffffffff) = 0
futex(0x7f921a2c9200, FUTEX_WAIT_BITSET_PRIVATE|FUTEX_CLOCK_REALTIME, 0,
NULL, 0xffffffff) = 0
futex(0x7f921a2c9200, FUTEX_WAIT_BITSET_PRIVATE|FUTEX_CLOCK_REALTIME, 0,
NULL, 0xffffffff) = 0
and backtrace in gdb included


Bug 595808 - app-crypt/gnupg-2.1.15: gpg-agent hangs after pinentry
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=595808
this one seemed related to specific kernel version behavior, so might
provide some insight into changes, we were unable to properly reproduce
it at the time (but it is a precursor to the above bug).

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