Kleopatra hangs loading certificate cache on Windows 11

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I’ve reported this on the GnuPG bug tracker, but given that GPG4WIN seems to be somewhat separate I figured I’d post it here as well.

https://dev.gnupg.org/T5760

The root cause of the problem seems to lie in gnupg 2.3.x somewhere as rolling back to 2.2.33 appears to resolve the problem.

2

I have the same issue on Windows 10.
suggested “workaround” to not set a smartcard port doesn’t work for me.

Only thing that works is to force-kill the scdaemon.

I didn’t downgrade gnupg.

3

I’ve noticed it hangs for a little bit when (re)loading the certificate cache when starting Kleopatra a while ago. In my observation it seems to take longer based on how long ago you used the program.

4

Hi Mark,

you maybe seeing something else, if it works for your at all. :slight_smile:
There are several potential reasons why it may take more time,
even legitimate one. If that is an issue for you, please open a new discussion topic.

Hi Kim, thanks for your feedback, I’ve added it to https://dev.gnupg.org/T5760

Best Regards
Bernhard

5

The provided workarounds didn’t workout for me, so I struggled somewhat around and found that the root cause relies in a lock on file “gnupg_spawn_keyboxd_sentinel.lock”. Let me provide you yet another workaround, these were the steps for me:

  1. Shutdown/Close Kleopatra

  2. Perform this command using powershell to stop all gpg processes:

Get-Process "*gpg*" | Stop-Process
  1. Navigate to:

C:\Users%username%\AppData\Roaming\gnupg

  1. rename file:

gnupg_spawn_keyboxd_sentinel.lock

  1. Start Kleopatra

Now it should start like it should

Ultimately you could also just run this in powershell:

Get-Process "*kleopatra*" | Stop-Process
Get-Process "*gpg*" | Stop-Process
Remove-Item "C:\Users\$Env:USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\gnupg\gnupg_spawn_dirmngr_sentinel.lock"
Start-Process -FilePath "C:\Program Files\Gpg4win\bin\kleopatra.exe"

Cheers