The Thursday 2005-01-13 at 06:13 -0500, Mark Hounschell wrote:
I've also noticed this only occurs when I login via KDM. If I am at run level-3 or ssh into the box then I don't have this problem. And as I said if I just remove that directory and re-login, all is fine for a few days, until this directory mysteriously reappears with the same contents. I have actually copied this directory (in its broken form) onto another machine into my account and the problem does not seem to follow the directory. Even so, I cannot help but think it has something to do with gnupgp. What causes this directory to be created? Why are its contents different on this machine? How could gnupgp or pgp affect my environment such that I cannot receive realtime signals. The same program using SIGUSR1 or SIGUSR2 will function ok?
I'll make a very wild guess - I don't have real knowledge of this, but I have a suspicion. KDE does lots of things, and it has a kind of gnupg agent for use by programs needing gpg. Probably, if there is a .gnupg directory this program or whatever gets started and provides services. Then, it will be this program which is interacting with yours strangely. You could have a look around these: /opt/kde3/bin/kgpg /opt/kde3/bin/kgpgcertmanager /opt/kde3/share/apps/kgpg /opt/kde3/share/apps/kgpgcertmanager -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson