From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jude DaShiell Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Call to `openssl` causes Emacs to freeze Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 00:21:03 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <87pp2msknh.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1439785287 2999 80.91.229.3 (17 Aug 2015 04:21:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 04:21:27 +0000 (UTC) To: Alexis , help-gnu-emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 17 06:21:19 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZRBvC-0001FA-Ek for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 06:21:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54141 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZRBvB-0007cv-Ku for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 00:21:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38095) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZRBv2-0007co-Ds for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 00:21:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZRBuy-0005Rp-66 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 00:21:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailbackend.panix.com ([166.84.1.89]:44529) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZRBuy-0005RE-2R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 00:21:04 -0400 Original-Received: from panix3.panix.com (panix3.panix.com [166.84.1.3]) by mailbackend.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5411019822; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 00:21:03 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by panix3.panix.com (Postfix, from userid 20712) id 3469D2EB4D; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 00:21:03 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by panix3.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E31B2EB4C; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 00:21:03 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87pp2msknh.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (NEB 23 2013-08-11) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux (Android) X-Received-From: 166.84.1.89 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:106642 Archived-At: 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 > To: help-gnu-emacs > 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. > > --