Package: exim4 Version: 4.52-1 Severity: normal I had some messages sitting in my queue that just weren't getting delivered, even though a delivery process had existed for them for over 30 minutes. They were just sending to a smarthost on the LAN.
It looked like it was hanging after STARTTLS. (TLS is used to send mail to the LAN smarthost) After awhile, I ran with debugging and discovered it was hanging after this: 10.200.0.2 in hosts_avoid_tls? no (option unset) SMTP>> STARTTLS waiting for data on socket read response data: size=18 SMTP<< 220 TLS go ahead initializing GnuTLS as a client parameter cache file /var/spool/exim4/gnutls-params does not exist generating 512 bit RSA key... Poking around with strace revealed that it was trying to pull from /dev/random, which was apparently depleted. (The system was mostly idle at that time.) Perhaps exim4 should revert to /dev/urandom if it can't get enough randomness from /dev/random in a reasonable amount of time. OTOH, I don't understand why it has to generate a key anyway. -- Package-specific info: Exim version 4.52 #1 built 02-Jul-2005 06:12:03 Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2005 Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.2.52: (December 3, 2003) Support for: iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dsearch nis nis0 passwd Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp Fixed never_users: 0 Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.13-rc3-mm1 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages exim4 depends on: ii exim4-base 4.52-1 support files for all exim MTA (v4 ii exim4-daemon-light 4.52-1 lightweight exim MTA (v4) daemon exim4 recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
