Thanks! Setting extensions.enigmail.keyRefreshOn = true seems to have fixed it. Sorry, I should've looked in the config editor as well.
Best,
Philipp
On 30.03.2018 11:01, Patrick Brunschwig wrote:
> On 30.03.18 10:54, Philipp Hagemeister wrote:
>> Since about yesterday, my enigmail 2:1.9.9-2 (on debian sid) seems to
>> automatically update keys by launching commands like this:
>>
>> /usr/bin/gpg --charset utf-8 --display-charset utf-8
>> --no-auto-check-trustdb --batch --no-tty --status-fd 2 --keyserver
>> hkps://pgp.mit.edu:443 --recv-keys 49B484E2FB331A4A
>>
>> 49B484E2FB331A4A is a key in my database. The process' parent is
>> thunderbird.
>>
>> These gpg instances use 100% of my CPU (well, 1 core) until I kill them
>> (I tested for 7+ minutes). Attaching strace shows a brain-dead behavior,
>> apparently trying to acquire a lock in a busyloop (wrong in itself,
>> should be blocking) with a crazy high offset:
>>
>> fcntl(8, F_SETLK, {l_type=F_RDLCK, l_whence=SEEK_SET,
>> l_start=1073741824, l_len=1}) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
>> fcntl(8, F_SETLK, {l_type=F_RDLCK, l_whence=SEEK_SET,
>> l_start=1073741824, l_len=1}) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
>> fcntl(8, F_SETLK, {l_type=F_RDLCK, l_whence=SEEK_SET,
>> l_start=1073741824, l_len=1}) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
>>
>> $ ls -lh /proc/6643/fd/8
>> lr-x------ 1 phihag phihag 64 Mar 30 10:40 /proc/6643/fd/8 ->
>> /home/phihag/.gnupg/tofu.db
>> $ ls -l /home/phihag/.gnupg/tofu.db
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 phihag phihag 49152 Mar 30 03:35 /home/phihag/.gnupg/tofu.db
>>
>> To me, this looks like a bug in gpg (not enigmail). Nevertheless, I
>> never wanted enigmail to automatically synchronize keys, especially when
>> I'm connected via a metered and small-bandwidth connection.
>>
>> So how do I disable the automatic key synchronization in enigmail? Even
>> with advanced preferences enabled, I cannot find any relevant tab,
>> letalone relevant option in the preferences.
>
> The option is hidden, that is, you can access it from the Config Editor
> (via Thunderbird options > Advanced Tab > Button "Config Editor"
>
> Search for the option "extensions.enigmail.keyRefreshOn" and set it to
> false.
>
> -Patrick
>
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