-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Am Fr den 29. Aug 2014 um 12:19 schrieb Jeremy Harris: > 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?
I had that in mind first too. But I have haveged running on that box with a low watermark of 1024. So it is very unlikely that this box runns out of entropy. And if I check proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail, I always have around 1500 (bytes(?)) entropy available. Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgen http://www.ethgen.ch/ pub 4096R/4E20AF1C 2011-05-16 Klaus Ethgen <[email protected]> Fingerprint: 85D4 CA42 952C 949B 1753 62B3 79D0 B06F 4E20 AF1C -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQGcBAEBCgAGBQJUAGtbAAoJEKZ8CrGAGfasbigL/ieV/bq6ENprcutTwRQW4kD4 lY97D7GD8RgiJYvjQcm13z6H1rL/G6VKuQGiXeqR/AJlB5ta5oUzWHZJhREoiBEJ LdcM1Hb5Z0B4z/ZyjPRWBojGT8uyGod6j+15i6HqQpjMGSp6nADe7Ga8Ttu6N+H3 CsNQF8lRdu9eUHZsg+SP1gEpvGrWykSObCHliouxCt7eYfMbl4rBQyPUHaGWlIkh zfcVXZ5is+PMyjQOBRuN82tqAM+x42liH7zdwZxnKdRtcqJPmpQmN3Hl6t+xBKPI Lf6wmjE7iXFj9iwwkMYUbO0X8enqrGMbuIMYAD/dYK4Na9ycm2QP7Q3Ixo8nAn8f Nw1XppyJc9jloRT4QeIlrSyJ5x5K4l/eGPt9ZtbDDUdA0DZEvbFUpfovvW2CuddW CC7S1DOJ/OMb7jN8CcUn5cGZ7LvC62FABmVyE602DVmmqpHUyhTtjyXaFGqJivGu KlaBcskWQXJVNqtfb2B42iEW1BtBT34dcP76Qvfhkg== =RtKo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
