From: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>
To: Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>, help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Call to `openssl` causes Emacs to freeze
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 00:21:03 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.11.1508170018400.14322@panix3.panix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pp2msknh.fsf@gmail.com>
I think this explains why twittering-mode cannot create an auth key for
twitter after username and password get entered. This happened in
earlier versions of emacs 24.x and I gave up on twittering-mode for that
reason.
On Mon, 17 Aug 2015, Alexis wrote:
> Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 22:39:46
> From: Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>
> To: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> Subject: Call to `openssl` causes Emacs to freeze
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Context: manually-compiled Emacs 24.5 on Debian Jessie x86_64.
>
> For a while i'd been facing the problem that, when i opened an HTML email
> (erk) in mu4e, Emacs would freeze; my only recourse was to terminate the
> Emacs process.
>
> Today i worked out that a call to `openssl` is the source of the problem:
> installing the `gnutls-bin` package and modifying the value of the variable
> `tls-program` to only call `gnutls-cli` fixed the issue.
>
> Modifying `tls-program` to add the "-no_ssl3" switch to the `openssl`
> invocation had not helped.
>
> Of course, OpenSSL's internals are apparently a wretched hive of scum, so i'm
> wondering if anyone else has faced this problem? Is this a known issue?
>
>
> Alexis.
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-17 4:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-17 2:39 Call to `openssl` causes Emacs to freeze Alexis
2015-08-17 4:21 ` Jude DaShiell [this message]
2015-08-17 6:26 ` tomas
2015-08-18 12:11 ` Alexis
2015-08-18 14:40 ` tomas
2015-09-08 10:25 ` Alexis
2015-09-08 13:07 ` tomas
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