Hi Stephen,
Stephen Gran wrote:
>>Can anyone please point me where to look next?
>
> My guess is you're out of entropy.
>
> cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail
>
> will tell you for sure.
Good catch! And i seemed to have forgotten to mention that this
'machine' was running User-Mode-Linux (sorry). Now it all makes sense.
> If so, comment out the last line of /etc/cron.daily/exim4-base:
>
> # rm -f /var/spool/exim4/gnutls-params
>
> This is imperfect, but will allow you to keep a working params file
> (once you've got enough entropy to generate one in the first place, of
> course). You may want to consider changing kernels to one that actually
> produces some entropy, as that is the long term (and best) fix. The
> advice above is a workaround until that is feasible.
I noticed a patch[1] that might be of help, otherwise i'll switch to a
real machine.
[1]
http://www.mythic-beasts.com/uml/patches.html
Thanks a lot,
--
- Pieter
