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


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