[OS X Emacs] Verifying Aquamacs

[Roussanka Loukanova]

Hi,

Yesterday, after starting up Aquamacs, there was no progress window
[Verifying Aquamacs.app]. I tried:
Aquamacs > Check for Updates...

It used to reply that Aquamacs is the newest current version (or prompt for
updating). But, this time, there was no such a message. Instead, I got a
message (which I can't exactly quote) in a new buffer of Aquamacs, stating
something like what Arthur quotes, about the certificate, and prompting me
with a question weather to proceed. There were three options. It was not
quite clear to me how to select one of them: each option was given in a
word starting with a capital letter. I tried to select the one that looked
reasonable to me, by hitting the corresponding letter. I'm not sure I
remember exactly the choices. Perhaps I selected Accept (or Proceed), by [A]
([P]).
This morning, by startng up Aquamacs,:

- I got the progress window [Verifying Aquamacs.app], for about a minute
- While Aquamacs is still with the scratch buffer, I've tried several times:
Aquamacs > Check for Updates...

There is no reasonable message by Aquamacs.app. I get in the Command line:
Mark set

As a test, I moved away my .emacs file (in which I have only some code
about clipboard, cursor-type, and electric-pair-pairs), and
customizations.el. This doesn't change the above response for Check for
Updates...

Now, I still  can't figure out what causes the progress window [Verifying
Aquamacs.app], and am also puzzled about the response for Check for
Updates...

Best Regards,
Roussanka

On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 3:25 AM Arthur E. OGUS <ogus at math.berkeley.edu>
wrote:

> Is  this message, which I receive sometimes, relevant:
>
> Certificate information
> Issued by:          Let's Encrypt Authority X3
> Issued to:          CN=aquamacs.org
> Hostname:           aquamacs.org
> Public key:         RSA, signature: RSA-SHA256
> Protocol:           TLS1.2, key: ECDHE-RSA, cipher: AES-128-GCM, mac: AEAD
> Security level:     Medium
> Valid:              From 2020-04-16 to 2020-07-15
>
>
> The TLS connection to aquamacs.org:443 is insecure for the following
> reasons:
>
> the certificate was signed by an unknown and therefore untrusted authority
> certificate could not be verified
>
>
> > On Apr 20, 2020, at 4:42 PM, Win Treese <treese at acm.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, Roussanka. Sorry to hear about the trouble. I haven’t seen that
> myself, although I don’t restart Aquamacs very often on my Catalina system.
> Some quick investigation doesn’t turn up anything obvious about what might
> be going on.
> >
> > Has anyone else out there seen this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Win
> >
> > Win Treese
> > treese at acm.org
> > Aquamacs maintainer
> >
> >> On Apr 16, 2020, at 9:54 AM, Roussanka Loukanova <rl.stpuu at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear Win, and Dear All,
> >>
> >> Recently, since about a couple of weeks, sometimes, when I start
> Aquamacs (by clicking on its icon on the Dock), I get a small, progress
> window [Verifying Aquamac.app], for a minute or so, before it opens a
> buffer.
> >>
> >> This doesn't happen always. I do not understand when this happens and
> why. I've been trying restarting the Mac and Aquamacs, but can't see any
> regularity. It seems to me that a verification is set to be triggered
> periodically, e.g., for checks of versions. What comes to my mind is that
> my Mac has become quite full, and thus, this verification goes slowly,
> while before it went so quickly that I didn't notice it.
> >>
> >> I have Aquamacs 3.5, on macOS Catalina V.10.15.4, on the simplest
> MacBook Air 2017, 121 GB.
> >>
> >> Best Regards,
> >> Roussanka
> >>
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