Hi John,
On 2021-08-18 03:15, John Lumby wrote:
The subject warning is logged once in my syslog for every VBoxHeadless startvm
that I run.
I see it on two different systems - one running 6.1.20 from a distro, other
running 6.1.22 which I built from the OSE.
On that 6.1.22 one, My libgcrypt version is libgcrypt-1.9.3 -- lib is
libgcrypt.so.20.3.3
This smells like some distros have invented a way to use libgcrypt as
the implementation for libcrypto. Possibly indirectly by using GnuTLS as
an OpenSSL drop-in replacement through the gnutls-openssl library.
VirtualBox definitely doesn't use libgcrypt directly.
Searching on the web shows numerous instances of the message "Libgcrypt warning:
missing initialization - please fix the application" but none of them indicate
VBoxHeadless or any virtualbox connection.
I have not attempted to debug this further and it is probably not too important
as everything works, but I wonder if anyone else has seen this. On a
quick glance at the virtualbox source I cant find any direct reference to or
use of libgcrypt at all.
You're correct. There is no direct reference.
Which distribution do you use? Wonder if the distro or you are making
any funny tricks to replace OpenSSL with GnuTLS? Because VirtualBox so
far is tested with "the real deal" only. Anything else is uncharted
territory.
Klaus
Cheers, John Lumby
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