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authorIvan Alejandro <ivanalejandro0@gmail.com>2015-10-30 14:40:44 -0300
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Here you can find documentation about known issues and potential work-arounds
in the current Bitmask release.
-No polkit agent available
--------------------------
-To run Bitmask and the services correctly you need to have a running polkit
-agent. If you don't have one you will get an error and won't be able to start
-Bitmask.
+Connection Errors
+-----------------
-The currently recognized polkit agents are:
+You may get the error: “Unable to connect: Problem with provider”. This can
+result from a problem with your network not the the provider. We are tracking
+this issue here https://leap.se/code/issues/4023 and plan to have more specific
+error notifications in the future.
-| process name | Who uses it? |
-|---------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
-| `polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1` | Gnome |
-| `polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1` | KDE |
-| `polkit-mate-authentication-agent-1` | Mate |
-| `lxpolkit` or `lxsession` | LXDE |
-| `xfce-polkit` | XFCE |
-| `gnome-shell` | Gnome shell |
-| `fingerprint-polkit-agent` | the `fingerprint-gui` package |
+Mail issues
+-----------
-If you have a different polkit agent running that it's not in that list,
-please report a bug so we can include in our checks.
+* If you have received a large amount of mails (testing with more than 400),
+Thunderbird may not respond. This problem wont happen if you already had the
+client open and Thunderbird loading mails at the same time.
-You can get the list of running processes that match polkit with the following
-command: `ps aux | grep -i polkit`.
-Here is an example on my KDE desktop:
+* Opening the same account from more than one computer at the same time might
+possibly break your account.
- ➜ ps aux | grep polkit
- root 1392 0.0 0.0 298972 6120 ? Sl Sep22 0:02 /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd --no-debug
- user 1702 0.0 0.0 12972 920 pts/16 S+ 16:42 0:00 grep polkit
- user 3259 0.0 0.4 559764 38464 ? Sl Sep22 0:05 /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1
+* You may get an error on Thunderbird about not being able to reach the IMAP
+server. This happens during long syncs.
+* If you have a big amount of emails and email traffic the syncs are
+sometimes very slow. We are working on this.
-Note that `polkitd` is not a valid agent, is just the daemon, you still need an
-agent running.
-Other Issues
-------------
+Key generation too slow?
+------------------------
-- You may get the error: "Unable to connect: Problem with provider" in
- situations when the problem is the network instead of the provider.
- See: https://leap.se/code/issues/4023
+When you create a new mail account, the key generation may take a while. It can
+take up to 5mins, but be aware, on virtual machines it sometimes takes a very
+long time. As long as a 40min!. The below tricks can reduce the time for
+testers using virtual machines.
-Mail issues
-===========
+If you are just testing mail accounts and **are not worried about security**
+you can use some tricks to generate the extra entropy needed to speed up the
+process.
-Note that email is not stable yet so this list may not be accurate.
+1. Manually generate entropy by moving the mouse, type stuff, browse the internet and local files, etc.
-- If you have received a big amount of mails (tested with more than 400), you
- may experience that Thunderbird won't respond.
+1. Use haveged
-That problem does not happen if you have the client open and Thunderbird
-loading mails while are reaching your inbox.
+ Install the haveged package, most likely is available through your distro's
+ package manager.
+ See: http://www.issihosts.com/haveged/
-- Opening the same account from more than one box at the same time will
- possibly break your account.
+1. Generate IO (may not work on SSDs)
-- You may get an error on Thunderbird about not being able to reach the IMAP
- server. This happens during long syncs.
+ find / -type f -print0 2>&1 | xargs -0 cat &> /dev/null
-- If you have a big amount of emails and email traffic the syncs may be very
- slow and your account will be most of the time syncing.
+If you want more information you can take a look at:
+https://leap.se/code/issues/4656
-Key generation too slow?
-------------------------
+"No polkit agent available" Error
+---------------------------------
-When you create a new mail account, the key generation may take a while. While
-it is normal that takes approx. 5mins, on virtual machines sometimes takes a
-very long time. As long as a 40min!.
-Using one of this tricks/hacks that time can be reduced to <5min.
+(For people using minimal distros/desktops like awesome/i3)
-If you are just testing mail accounts and **do not worry about security** you can
-use some tricks to generate the extra entropy needed to speed up the process.
+To run Bitmask and the services correctly you need to have a running polkit
+agent. If you don’t have one you will get an error and won’t be able to start
+Bitmask.
-1. Manually generate entropy
+The currently recognized polkit agents are:
- Move the mouse, type stuff, browse the internet and local files, etc.
+| process name | Who uses it? |
+|---------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
+| `polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1` | Gnome |
+| `polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1` | KDE |
+| `polkit-mate-authentication-agent-1` | Mate |
+| `lxpolkit` or `lxsession` | LXDE |
+| `xfce-polkit` | XFCE |
+| `gnome-shell` | Gnome shell |
+| `fingerprint-polkit-agent` | the `fingerprint-gui` package |
-1. Use haveged
- Install the haveged package, most likely is available through your distro's
- package manager.
+If you have a different polkit agent running that it's not in that list,
+please report a bug so we can include in our checks.
- See: http://www.issihosts.com/haveged/
+You can get the list of running processes that match polkit with the following
+command: `ps aux | grep -i polkit`.
+Here is an example on my KDE desktop:
-1. Generate IO (may not work on SSDs)
+ ➜ ps aux | grep polkit
+ root 1392 0.0 0.0 298972 6120 ? Sl Sep22 0:02 /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd --no-debug
+ user 1702 0.0 0.0 12972 920 pts/16 S+ 16:42 0:00 grep polkit
+ user 3259 0.0 0.4 559764 38464 ? Sl Sep22 0:05 /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1
- find / -type f -print0 2>&1 | xargs -0 cat &> /dev/null
-If you want more information you can take a look at:
-https://leap.se/code/issues/4656
+Note that `polkitd` is not a valid agent, is just the daemon, you still need an
+agent running.