[Gpg4win-devel] [gpg4win-Bugs][6569] GPA is highly unstable. Crashes at the drop of a hat.

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Bugs item #6569, was opened at 2014-09-29 22:25 by Wesley Morthawt
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Status: Open
Priority: 3
Submitted By: Wesley Morthawt (morthawt)
Assigned to: Nobody (None)
Summary: GPA is highly unstable. Crashes at the drop of a hat. 
Hardware: PC
Product: Gpg4win-exe-Installer
Operating System: Windows 7
Component: GPA
Version: 2.2.2
Severity: major
Resolution: None
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Initial Comment:
I have 8 public keys in my keyring. 2 have Private keys. GPA has crashed on me several times during copying a key ID, while trying to copy a resulting signed piece of text etc. I made a tutorial the other day for gpg4win and I had to do editing on it to edit out the crashes that happened. It has crashed both on my real machine and also the fresh nice clean windows 7 I run in VMware to do tutorial videos (which I always go back to a clean snapshot when making new content).

I did not know where else to put this bug report but I wanted to get it out there and hope it gets to the right people. GPA is the best program out of the two in my opinion, but unfortunately with it being extremely unstable and I am not exagerating when I say extremely. It probably crashes on me 15 times a day just doing simplistic things like copying a key ID from the interface, copying encrypted/decrypted/verified text. It is not a stable bug. I load it again after it crashes and it works fine for a few minutes and then a normal operation causes it to crash again.

This is the last crash I had that made me want to report this somewhere. I was experimenting with signing HTML content, I copied the source code into GPA and signed it with my key and when I pressed Ctrl + A and Ctrl + C to copy it, it crashed and it was not copied to my clipboard, which meant I had to do the entire thing from scratch again. So that was the final straw. The crash right before that as I said was the copying of a keyid.

I do not know how it got released in this condition.

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