Sat, Feb 9
So, the keyserver operator had thrown in a hockeypuck server in the pool, causing this.. While the keyserver remains in the exclude list until confirmation it has been resolved, that explains the behavior and it has been made clear that separate software needs to use different names in the future.
Mon, Feb 4
@kristianf we talked about this on Saturday evening. Would you be so kind and have a quick look at the problem with the hu server?
Fri, Feb 1
Hi Werner and thanks for looking into this.
Wed, Jan 30
According to sks-keyservers.net both servers you mention run the very same software. Thus I would like to understand why you think they require the use of a legacy option.
Fri, Jan 25
Thu, Jan 24
I want to have this fixed for the next release so prio high.
Oops. Assignee removal was an accident. Sorry for the noise here ;-)
Just as a note: To workaround this you can also place "no-use-tor" into %APPDATA%\gnupg\dirmngr.conf (you might need to create that file) %APPDATA% expands to something like "c:\users\yourname\appdata\roaming"
On Win 10 Pro it looks like File Transfer Server.exe is running on port 9050 which could be causing the issue. See screenshots.
Apparently i had a ASUS Wi-Fi go process listening on that port (even though i thought had uninstalled it), killing the process also allows dirmngr to start
Thanks you very much for your help! I think we have it. \o/
Running with the --no-use-tor results in output ending with OK Dirmngr 2.2.11 at your service, attached is the procmon output , to clear up one thing q4master.idsoftware.com points to 127.0.0.1 in my hosts file (in addition to localhost also pointing to 127.0.0.1), but it seems the issue is with the tor check
I see some strangeness:
A TCP Connect: q4master.idsoftware.com:4862 -> q4master.idsoftware.com:9050
and TCP Send: q4master.idsoftware.com:4862 -> q4master.idsoftware.com:9050
Jan 24 2019
Done, See attached
I'm thinking of how to move this forward.
The problem is that we (the developers) can't reproduce this at all and the debug output does not show anything.
Jan 23 2019
Has anybody discovered a fix for this issue? I'm running Win 10 Pro with Gpg4win v3.1.5. Dirmngr is still not executing and just hangs.
Dec 14 2018
So if your DNS resolver does not tell us the IP addresses, we can't do anything about it.
Dec 11 2018
If you specify a pool of keyservers dirmngr selects a keyserver on its won from the pool. This is so that it can use its own heuristics to detect whether a keyserver is dead and then retry another one. Now the default is a pool and your specified keyserver.ubuntu.com is also a pool (of two servers). So if your DNS resolver does not tell us the IP addresses, we can't do anything about it.
Will go into 2.1.12 to be released next week.
Thanks.
Nov 12 2018
I can reproduce it if I enter your or an unknown IP address.
Mmh. It still makes a bit sense to me as I think it will be faster. But of course for memory mapped files the OS might decide.
Nov 7 2018
The dirmngr may at any time open a file in that directory and thus there is no reliable way to remove the home directory when any gpg tool is running. Daemons need to be stopped before a directory can be deleted. So I think this is a non-issue and brought to the table only because we have that kludge of detecting a n unlinked directory on Unix. But even on Unix this is not possible to get rid of the home directory, for example if you want to umount it.
Nov 6 2018
Sorry, it didn't made it into 2.2.11.
Nov 5 2018
No more complaints thus time to close.
Fixed in master and 2.2.
Oct 29 2018
It actually tries several servers but we need to set a limit because we need to cope with longer timeouts. Do you suggest to toggle between v4 and v6 addresses? That is if a v6 address fails, first try the next v4 address and it that fails, another v6 address, etc.
Oct 25 2018
Oh, that is really old code dating back to dirmngr-1. There is only one user I will see whether I can replace it with the generic parser we have in http.c
Oct 24 2018
If I understand the code correctly the mapping is done to let the system optimize the memory management so that the full contents of the file are not kept in memory, or is there a different reason?
Maybe related, flush also does not work on Windows:
Oct 22 2018
iirrc, that are memory mapped files.
@werner
This was an issue we talked about.
I'm also seeing the same behaviour on a freshly installed Windows 10 1809 with Gpg4win v3.1.4. Have to kill dirmngr from task manager to be able to get into Kleopatra.