I see hundreds of lines output but can't easily detect what you question or bug is. Please strip your report down to something we can triage more easy. Also what OS etc. Thanks.

I'd really like to understand what is going on. Thus keeping the report open.

I checked the mingw runtime and did not found any allocation of a new console. Thus I don't understand why a console pops up when gpgconf is used. gpgconf spawns gpg et. al to read its options and it does this without using DETACHED_PROCESS. Thus all these subprocesses inherit the parents console - which is for gpgme started process no console (due to DETACHED_PROCESS used in gpgme_w32spwn). For a GUI application like Kleopatra which has no console, the use use DETACHED_PROCESS sould not make a difference because there is no console to inherit. Andre's test however show that it makes a difference.

The assuan_pipe_connect function is called with bit 7 set for example to start pinentry or scdaemon:

Frankly, I doubt that this belongs into gpgme.

Andre can you please apply this?

W/o a special tag in the commit there seems to be no way to mark a patch as applied.

All commited. I created a new installer gnupg-w32-2.2.3_20171207.exe which comes with the new libassuan 2.5.1 and the two required patches for gnupg.

I pushed this change with the addition of a doc entry and to protect against a not yet initialized socket interface.

There is request to add support for ssh-certs to gpg-agent: T1756. Right now gpg-agent can only extract the public key from the certificiates and nothing more. The gpg-agent speaks the ssh-agent protocol and as such does not know anything about files uses by ssh to store certificates.

Released. Unfortunately without EFL but we need to have a release after more than a year.

:-(

A new installer with an updated libassuan is now available. To download gnupg-2.2.3_171201.exe please go to https://gnupg.org/download/ . If you had the disable-check-own-socket in your gpg-agent.conf, please remove it so that we can really see whether that version fixes the problem.

A new installer with an updated libassuan is now available. To download gnupg-2.2.3_171201.exe please go to https://gnupg.org/download/ . If you had the disable-check-own-socket in your gpg-agent.conf, please remove it so that we can really see whether that version fixes the problem.

Adding Windows again because on Unix it is unlikley that our close will block. A documented blocking behavior is only defined for STREAMS

Yeah, that looks correct. Good catch. The bug exhibits itself when gpg-agent checks its own socket. In this case gpg-agent is both, client and server, and due to our userland multi-threading we get blocked. The suspend/resume things makes the deadlock more likely. Note that we have the same problem on Unix.

Please do not paste such long debug messages - they are not helpful. Please try to explain the error. From what I can see from that long dump the DNS server failed.

For reference here is @mcgrof's dump in a directly readable format:

00:29:33.472844 IP 192.168.4.7.10218 > 192.168.4.1.domain: 53039+ SRV? _pgpkey-https._tcp.hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net. (65)
00:29:33.879268 IP 192.168.4.1.domain > 192.168.4.7.10218: 53039 FormErr 0/0/0 (65)
00:29:33.880719 IP 192.168.4.7.10218 > 192.168.4.1.domain: 51133+ Type0 (Class 8448)? _pgpkey-https._tcp.hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net. (66)
00:29:33.902115 IP 192.168.4.1.domain > 192.168.4.7.10218: 51133 FormErr 0/0/0 (65)

IIRC, I red some hints on using a powershell module to switch the output to binary. I tries to find that mode, or weel its source or scrip) but to no success. It seems to be a common problem with powershell because it is not a real shell as we are used to (where many commands have a /b switch but that switching could also be done using setmode() ).

Can someone please add

Can someone please add

I need to look at the code. I remember that we used to flag executables as GUI applications so that they do not show the console at all.