Hi! I was able to duplicate this after some tries. strace shows that it hangs in
futex(0xb7ea9880, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call) The EINTR is due to the SIGQUIT. I am running Sid using the same glibc version but a stock gpg 1.4.5. A quick check of the glibc 2.4 source shows that the futex syscall is only used within the nptl library (according to file names). gpg is a single-threaded application so the cause must be somewhere in glibc or in the crt. Trying to run under strace or ltrace does not show the problem. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

