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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
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