Re: [exim] New error with gnutls and current exim

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Autor: Jeremy Harris
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A: exim-users
Assumpte: Re: [exim] New error with gnutls and current exim
On 29/08/14 12:01, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> since some days, when debian (unstable) updated to the most recent
> version of exim and updated gnutls (exim v4.84, gnutls v3.3.6) I get the
> following errors in paniclog:
>    2014-08-29 09:58:49 Exim configuration error:
>      tls_require_ciphers invalid: gnutls_global_init() failed: Failed to acquire random data.


That's an error coming from the internals of the GnuTLS library, though
reported by Exim.

Is it possible that your system is now using more entropy,
and running out of /dev/random data sometimes?
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Cheers,
Jeremy