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Arancaytar | 3 Jan 03:36
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"Enigmime Service Not Available"

I am consistently getting the above error whenever I do anything related to the
Enigmail extension (looking at its About page, changing its Preferences, sending
an email, etc.)

I'm using the Thunderbird 2.0 Beta 2 and Enigmail's Nightly Build 0.94.1.2.0
(20070102). I realize these are not supported, but I've gathered from other
messages here that they work fine for most people.

The help pages at mozdev.org suggested this error is caused by an older version
of Enigmail (pre 0.89) not being cleanly removed, and that this could be fixed
by  uninstalling and reinstalling Thunderbird or deleting the chrome directory
in the profile. Neither of these have had an effect.

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I don't know if this problem is related, but I also cannot import my keyring.
The Key Management window gets stuck, displaying "Loading keys, please wait..."
in the status bar, and selecting "Import Keys from File" has no visible effect.

Any ideas?

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Kristian Fiskerstrand | 3 Jan 16:07

Re: "Enigmime Service Not Available"


Arancaytar wrote, On 01/03/2007 03:36 AM:
> I am consistently getting the above error whenever I do anything related to the
> Enigmail extension (looking at its About page, changing its Preferences, sending
> an email, etc.)
> 
> I'm using the Thunderbird 2.0 Beta 2 and Enigmail's Nightly Build 0.94.1.2.0
> (20070102). I realize these are not supported, but I've gathered from other
> messages here that they work fine for most people.

I can only presume you mean Beta 1, as that is what you're sending the
message from in the first place.

> 
> The help pages at mozdev.org suggested this error is caused by an older version
> of Enigmail (pre 0.89) not being cleanly removed, and that this could be fixed
> by  uninstalling and reinstalling Thunderbird or deleting the chrome directory
> in the profile. Neither of these have had an effect.

True,this is often the case. Have you tried using a new profile
altogether to see if it works then?
> -
> 
> I don't know if this problem is related, but I also cannot import my keyring.
> The Key Management window gets stuck, displaying "Loading keys, please wait..."
> in the status bar, and selecting "Import Keys from File" has no visible effect.
> 
> Any ideas?

Which version of GnuPG do you have installed, and what happens if you
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John W. Moore III | 3 Jan 18:10

Re: "Enigmime Service Not Available"


Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:

> True,this is often the case. Have you tried using a new profile
> altogether to see if it works then?

The 'Best Way' to ensure a 'Clean" Install of Enigmail is to Delete the
Extension from the Profile Directory *prior* to installing the Nightly.
 Off the top of My head I don't recall exactly what the complicated
'string' numbers are; but perhaps Patrick or Olav will provide these.

>> Any ideas?

Any way that the De-Bug File could be sent so that Analysis could be
performed?
> 
> Which version of GnuPG do you have installed, and what happens if you
> try to use it directly?

Note to Kristian:  Your Tb 2.01b is ready for Updates.  Do You have auto
Update set?  I am using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.8.1.2pre) Gecko/20061230 Thunderbird/2.0b1 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 - Build
ID: 2007010204

JOHN :-\
Timestamp: Wednesday 03 Jan 2007, 12:09  --500 (Eastern Standard Time)
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Arancaytar | 3 Jan 20:55
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Re: "Enigmime Service Not Available"

Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:

>> I'm using the Thunderbird 2.0 Beta 2 and Enigmail's Nightly Build 0.94.1.2.0
>> (20070102). I realize these are not supported, but I've gathered from other
>> messages here that they work fine for most people.
> 
> I can only presume you mean Beta 1, as that is what you're sending the
> message from in the first place.
> 

Yup, Thunderbird 2 Beta 1, sorry. Afaik, 2.0b2 isn't even released yet; I just
mixed up the numbers.

Also, I didn't mention this yet, but I'm on Windows XP.

>> The help pages at mozdev.org suggested this error is caused by an older version
>> of Enigmail (pre 0.89) not being cleanly removed, and that this could be fixed
>> by  uninstalling and reinstalling Thunderbird or deleting the chrome directory
>> in the profile. Neither of these have had an effect.
> 
> True,this is often the case. Have you tried using a new profile
> altogether to see if it works then?

John W. Moore III wrote:
> The 'Best Way' to ensure a 'Clean" Install of Enigmail is to Delete the
> Extension from the Profile Directory *prior* to installing the Nightly.
>  Off the top of My head I don't recall exactly what the complicated
> 'string' numbers are; but perhaps Patrick or Olav will provide these.
>
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Kristian Fiskerstrand | 3 Jan 22:31

Re: "Enigmime Service Not Available"


John W. Moore III wrote, On 01/03/2007 06:10 PM:
> Note to Kristian:  Your Tb 2.01b is ready for Updates.  Do You have auto
> Update set?  I am using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
> rv:1.8.1.2pre) Gecko/20061230 Thunderbird/2.0b1 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 - Build
> ID: 2007010204

There hasn't been any Beta 2 release, you are yourself using
Thunderbird/2.0b1 :)

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John W. Moore III | 3 Jan 23:03

Re: "Enigmime Service Not Available"

Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:

> There hasn't been any Beta 2 release, you are yourself using
> Thunderbird/2.0b1 :)

Indeed; YOU are correct, even My fingers sometimes get ahead of My
brain. :-[

Anyway; have You updated?

JOHN ;)
Timestamp: Wednesday 03 Jan 2007, 17:02  --500 (Eastern Standard Time)
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Patrick Brunschwig | 3 Jan 23:06

Re: "Enigmime Service Not Available"


Arancaytar wrote:
> I am consistently getting the above error whenever I do anything related to the
> Enigmail extension (looking at its About page, changing its Preferences, sending
> an email, etc.)
> 
> I'm using the Thunderbird 2.0 Beta 2 and Enigmail's Nightly Build 0.94.1.2.0
> (20070102). I realize these are not supported, but I've gathered from other
> messages here that they work fine for most people.

Make sure you download the correct build, i.e. the one for Thunderbird
2.0 branch. I'm pretty sure that this works fine on Windows with TB 2.0
beta 1.

-Patrick
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Arancaytar | 4 Jan 19:15
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Re: "Enigmime Service Not Available"


Patrick Brunschwig wrote:

> Make sure you download the correct build, i.e. the one for Thunderbird
> 2.0 branch. I'm pretty sure that this works fine on Windows with TB 2.0
> beta 1.
> 
> -Patrick
> 

I can be so daft sometimes.

Thanks. I downloaded the 2.0 nightly, and now it works, as clearly visible.
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T. H. | 5 Jan 18:46
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Bug #9730

I'm affected by this bug http://bugzilla.mozdev.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9730
almost daily. I am worried. When an encrypted email sent to me can cause
a thunderbird crash, it is not far a fetched assumption that a properly
crafted encrypted mail sent to me can also cause code injection.

A recent bugzilla entry (for bug # 15951)

>> Known bug, no known resolution ...
>> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 9730 ***

tells me that you are still aware of this bug.

A few weeks ago I compiled a debug version of thunderbird and a matching
version of enigmail to try to debug this, but I do not know a thing
about mozilla's or thunderbird's inner workings. The crash seemed to
happen in the javascript interpreter and some function in the backtrace
had "weakref" or similar in the name. Sorry, don't have the details
anymore. I had the feeling that this bug may have its roots in the
memory management of Thunderbird's javascript interpeter, and that is so
out of my league (as I said, I don't know anything about thunderbird's
inner workings), I gave up there.

I have searched the mailing list archives for references to 9730 to
investigate what the enigmail developer's know about this bug, but apart
from 1 short mail in April 2005 it came up empty. So may I ask, what do
you know about this bug? Why is it so difficult to fix?

If it helps, I can offer to send anyone who asks a mail that will most
likely crash thunderbird when you decrypt it with enigmail. Just send me
your public key.
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Patrick Brunschwig | 8 Jan 15:17

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T. H. wrote:
> I'm affected by this bug http://bugzilla.mozdev.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9730
> almost daily. I am worried. When an encrypted email sent to me can cause
> a thunderbird crash, it is not far a fetched assumption that a properly
> crafted encrypted mail sent to me can also cause code injection.
> 
> A recent bugzilla entry (for bug # 15951)
> 
>>> Known bug, no known resolution ...
>>> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 9730 ***
> 
> tells me that you are still aware of this bug.

yes, no doubt.

> A few weeks ago I compiled a debug version of thunderbird and a matching
> version of enigmail to try to debug this, but I do not know a thing
> about mozilla's or thunderbird's inner workings. The crash seemed to
> happen in the javascript interpreter and some function in the backtrace
> had "weakref" or similar in the name. Sorry, don't have the details
> anymore. I had the feeling that this bug may have its roots in the
> memory management of Thunderbird's javascript interpeter, and that is so
> out of my league (as I said, I don't know anything about thunderbird's
> inner workings), I gave up there.

So did I a long time ago :-( The problem is deep inside Thunderbird, and
even though I know very well how to work _with_ the Thunderbird code,
it's still difficult to find or resolve bugs _inside_ Thunderbird code.
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