2.3 keydb problems

[Werner Koch]

On Sat, 27 Feb 2021 12:20, Robert J. Hansen said:

> 2021-02-27 12:17:28 keyboxd[65435] waiting for lock (held by 535569) ...
>
> There is no process with PID 535569.

Can you please check the file

~/.gnupg/public-keys.d./pubring.db.lock

It should have two lines: The first with the pid and the second giving
the hostname.  Can you delete that file?

We use the same locking code all over gnupg, so it can't be a problem of
keyboxd only.

What you could also do is to "strace -p 65435" to see the system call
errors.  For reference here is the code pertaining to this (from
common/dotlock.c):

  /* Check for stale lock files.  */
  if ( (pid = read_lockfile (h, &same_node)) == -1 )
    {
      if ( errno != ENOENT )
        {
          saveerrno = errno;
          my_info_0 ("cannot read lockfile\n");
          my_set_errno (saveerrno);
          return -1;
        }
      my_info_0 ("lockfile disappeared\n");
      goto again;
    }
  else if ( pid == getpid() && same_node )
    {
      my_info_0 ("Oops: lock already held by us\n");
      h->locked = 1;
      return 0; /* okay */
    }
  else if ( same_node && kill (pid, 0) && errno == ESRCH )
// This should trigger the removal of a stale lock file.  
// To cope with remote file systems this requires that the the lock file
// was created by this box (same_host).  The question is why there is a
// stale lock file at all.
    {
      /* Note: It is unlikely that we get a race here unless a pid is
         reused too fast or a new process with the same pid as the one
         of the stale file tries to lock right at the same time as we.  */
      my_info_1 (_("removing stale lockfile (created by %d)\n"), pid);
      unlink (h->lockname);
      goto again;
    }

  if (lastpid == -1)
    lastpid = pid;
  ownerchanged = (pid != lastpid);

  if (timeout)
    {
      struct timeval tv;

      /* Wait until lock has been released.  We use increasing retry
         intervals of 50ms, 100ms, 200ms, 400ms, 800ms, 2s, 4s and 8s
         but reset it if the lock owner meanwhile changed.  */
      if (!wtime || ownerchanged)
        wtime = 50;
      else if (wtime < 800)
        wtime *= 2;
      else if (wtime == 800)
        wtime = 2000;
      else if (wtime < 8000)
        wtime *= 2;

      if (timeout > 0)
        {
          if (wtime > timeout)
            wtime = timeout;
          timeout -= wtime;
        }

      sumtime += wtime;
      if (sumtime >= 1500)
        {
          sumtime = 0;
          my_info_3 (_("waiting for lock (held by %d%s) %s...\n"),
                     pid, maybe_dead, maybe_deadlock(h)? _("(deadlock?) "):"");
        }


      tv.tv_sec = wtime / 1000;
      tv.tv_usec = (wtime % 1000) * 1000;
      select (0, NULL, NULL, NULL, &tv);
      goto again;
    }




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