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and subject line Re: Bug#759590: mutt: Error in GnuTLS initialization: Failed
to acquire random data.
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regarding mutt: Error in GnuTLS initialization: Failed to acquire random data.
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: mutt
Version: 1.5.23-1.1
Severity: normal
After today's Sid upgrade from 1.5.23-1 to 1.5.23-1.1 mutt is now
emitting this message when starting.
Error in GnuTLS initialization: Failed to acquire random data.
The changelog for 1.5.23-1.1 shows:
* Rebuild against GnuTLS v3. Closes: #668816
Therefore I assume this is related.
Bob
-- Package-specific info:
Mutt 1.5.23 (2014-03-12)
Copyright (C) 1996-2009 Michael R. Elkins and others.
Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'.
Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details.
System: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 (x86_64)
ncurses: ncurses 5.9.20140712 (compiled with 5.9)
libidn: 1.29 (compiled with 1.29)
hcache backend: tokyocabinet 1.4.48
Compiler:
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.9/lto-wrapper
Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Debian 4.9.1-6'
--with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.9/README.Bugs
--enable-languages=c,c++,java,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr
--program-suffix=-4.9 --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id
--libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix
--with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.9 --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls
--with-sysroot=/ --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug
--enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-gnu-unique-object --disable-vtable-verify
--enable-plugin --with-system-zlib --disable-browser-plugin
--enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-gtk-cairo
--with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.9-amd64/jre --enable-java-home
--with-jvm-root-dir=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.9-amd64
--with-jvm-jar-dir=/usr/lib/jvm-exports/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.9-amd64
--with-arch-directory=amd64 --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar
--enable-objc-gc --enable-multiarch --with-arch-32=i586 --with-abi=m64
--with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --enable-multilib --with-tune=generic
--enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu
--target=x86_64-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.9.1 (Debian 4.9.1-6)
Configure options: '--prefix=/usr' '--sysconfdir=/etc'
'--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-docdir=/usr/share/doc'
'--with-mailpath=/var/mail' '--disable-dependency-tracking'
'--enable-compressed' '--enable-debug' '--enable-fcntl' '--enable-hcache'
'--enable-gpgme' '--enable-imap' '--enable-smtp' '--enable-pop' '--with-curses'
'--with-gnutls' '--with-gss' '--with-idn' '--with-mixmaster' '--with-sasl'
'--without-gdbm' '--without-bdb' '--without-qdbm' '--build' 'x86_64-linux-gnu'
'build_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat
-Werror=format-security -Wall' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,relro'
'CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -I/usr/include/qdbm'
Compilation CFLAGS: -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat
-Werror=format-security -Wall
Compile options:
-DOMAIN
+DEBUG
-HOMESPOOL +USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK +DL_STANDALONE +USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK
+USE_POP +USE_IMAP +USE_SMTP
-USE_SSL_OPENSSL +USE_SSL_GNUTLS +USE_SASL +USE_GSS +HAVE_GETADDRINFO
+HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX
+HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_START_COLOR +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD +HAVE_BKGDSET
+HAVE_CURS_SET +HAVE_META +HAVE_RESIZETERM
+CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_PGP +CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_SMIME +CRYPT_BACKEND_GPGME
-EXACT_ADDRESS -SUN_ATTACHMENT
+ENABLE_NLS -LOCALES_HACK +COMPRESSED +HAVE_WC_FUNCS +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET
+HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR
+HAVE_ICONV -ICONV_NONTRANS +HAVE_LIBIDN +HAVE_GETSID +USE_HCACHE
-ISPELL
SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
MAILPATH="/var/mail"
PKGDATADIR="/usr/share/mutt"
SYSCONFDIR="/etc"
EXECSHELL="/bin/sh"
MIXMASTER="mixmaster"
To contact the developers, please mail to <[email protected]>.
To report a bug, please visit http://bugs.mutt.org/.
misc/am-maintainer-mode.patch
features/ifdef.patch
features/xtitles.patch
features/trash-folder.patch
features/purge-message.patch
features/imap_fast_trash.patch
features/sensible_browser_position.patch
features-old/patch-1.5.4.vk.pgp_verbose_mime.patch
features/compressed-folders.patch
features/compressed-folders.debian.patch
debian-specific/Muttrc.patch
debian-specific/Md.etc_mailname_gethostbyname.patch
debian-specific/use_usr_bin_editor.patch
debian-specific/correct_docdir_in_man_page.patch
debian-specific/dont_document_not_present_features.patch
debian-specific/document_debian_defaults.patch
debian-specific/assumed_charset-compat.patch
debian-specific/467432-write_bcc.patch
debian-specific/566076-build_doc_adjustments.patch
misc/define-pgp_getkeys_command.patch
misc/gpg.rc-paths.patch
misc/smime.rc.patch
misc/fix-configure-test-operator.patch
upstream/531430-imapuser.patch
upstream/543467-thread-segfault.patch
upstream/542817-smimekeys-tmpdir.patch
upstream/548577-gpgme-1.2.patch
upstream/553321-ansi-escape-segfault.patch
upstream/547980-smime_keys-chaining.patch
upstream/528233-readonly-open.patch
upstream/228671-pipe-mime.patch
upstream/383769-score-match.patch
upstream/603288-split-fetches.patch
upstream/611410-no-implicit_autoview-for-text-html.patch
upstream/path_max.patch
translations/update_german_translation.patch
__separator__mutt.org.patch
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages mutt depends on:
ii libassuan0 2.1.2-1
ii libc6 2.19-10
ii libcomerr2 1.42.11-2
ii libgnutls-deb0-28 3.3.6-2
ii libgpg-error0 1.13-3
ii libgpgme11 1.5.1-1
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.12.1+dfsg-7
ii libidn11 1.29-1
ii libk5crypto3 1.12.1+dfsg-7
ii libkrb5-3 1.12.1+dfsg-7
ii libncursesw5 5.9+20140712-2
ii libsasl2-2 2.1.26.dfsg1-11
ii libtinfo5 5.9+20140712-2
ii libtokyocabinet9 1.4.48-2
Versions of packages mutt recommends:
ii libsasl2-modules 2.1.26.dfsg1-11
ii locales 2.19-10
ii locales-all [locales] 2.19-10
ii mime-support 3.56
ii postfix [mail-transport-agent] 2.11.1-1
Versions of packages mutt suggests:
ii aspell 0.60.7~20110707-1.1
ii ca-certificates 20140325
ii gnupg 1.4.18-2
ii ispell 3.3.02-6
pn mixmaster <none>
ii openssl 1.0.1i-2
ii urlview 0.9-19
Versions of packages mutt is related to:
ii mutt 1.5.23-1.1
pn mutt-dbg <none>
pn mutt-patched <none>
-- no debconf information
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Andreas Metzler wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Error in GnuTLS initialization: Failed to acquire random data.
> [...]
> > If there is a system problem then it arrived by doing a normal Sid
> > apt-get upgrade every day.
> [...]
>
> One way to get this error is to break /dev/*random, e.g. by not
> having it mode 777. Is this perhaps the case?
Nope. It is the same as before and the same as other systems. Thanks
for the idea though.
$ ll /dev/*random
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 8 Aug 13 11:56 /dev/random
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 9 Aug 13 11:56 /dev/urandom
I can read /dev/random with dd and the result appears reasonable and
random on a quick browse.
With the updated information I will eventually close or reassign since
this is now obviously something from gnutls not mutt. It must be
something in gnutls. I am tempted to reboot but then if that solves
the problem, since it might be something with the kernel, but then I
will have lost the test case.
I will go ahead and close this bug in mutt. If I can get to the
underlying cause I will open a new bug probably against gnutls. If I
do I will add a link to the new bug in a later response.
Bob
--- End Message ---
