Password Safe / Bugs / #1240 passwordsafe 0.9x hangs after start

#1240 passwordsafe 0.9x hangs after start

Milestone: v1.0_(example)

Status: closed

Owner: Rony Shapiro

Labels: None

Priority: 1

Updated: 2015-09-23

Created: 2015-01-27

Creator: Thomas Waldmann

Private: No

Every "normal" amd64 ubuntu passwordsafe release (tested: 0.92 .. 0.95) hangs for me directly after starting it with a passwordsafe filename as parameter (when it queries for the safe password).

I can't type anything into the password input field, can't close the application. Only Ctrl-C in the terminal from where I started it terminates it.

The only version that works for me is 0.92 for ubuntu12.04 32bit, that doesn't have this problem.

Currently, I am running Ubuntu Linux 14.04 AMD64.

Is this maybe caused by yubikey stuff (I don't have a yubikey)?
I think I have seen this before and maybe even filed a bug about it back then...

Discussion

Thomas Waldmann - 2015-01-27

correction: it is the 0.93beta for ubuntu 12.04 32bit (not 0.92) that works.

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Rony Shapiro - 2015-01-27

Odd, I can't reproduce this on my Ubuntu 14.04.01 LTS 64bit VM.

Can you provide the output of strace on the program when it hangs?

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Thomas Waldmann - 2015-02-09

sorry, took me a while until I got to it.

attached is the output of strace until some seconds after the hang occurred.
keyboard input or closing of the program was not possible at that time.
i finally had to kill it with ctrl-c on the console.

095b_amd64_hang.txt

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Rony Shapiro - 2015-02-10

Odd. strace indicates that pwsafe is indeed in some kind of loop around the USB devices.

A couple of directions:
1. Can you run pwsafe as root and see if it still gets stuck? If not, then there's some error around handling no permission for the usb devices.
+ I've uploaded a version built for Ubuntu64 without YubKey support. Please try it and let me know if there's a difference:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/files/Linux-BETA/0.95.1/passwordsafe-ubuntu-0.95.1BETA-no-yubi.amd64.deb/download

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Rony Shapiro - 2015-02-10

status: open --> accepted

assigned_to: Rony Shapiro
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Thomas Waldmann - 2015-02-11

The 0.95.1 amd64 version without yubikey support works without hanging. thanks!

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Thomas Waldmann - 2015-02-11

running as root: i tried with 0.95 amd64 and it also hangs, but somehow a bit less. after 30s or so, some stuff i type in gets visible as ** then it hangs again for a while...

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Rony Shapiro - 2015-09-23

status: accepted --> closed
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Rony Shapiro - 2015-09-23

Problem appears to be with Yubikey code, not much I can do here beyond providing build w/o Yubikey support.

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