Bug#350760: exim4-daemon-light: outgoing connection terminates: Fatal: no entropy gathering module detected

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2006-01-31 Eduard Bloch <blade at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: exim4-daemon-light
> Version: 4.60-3
> Severity: important

> Hello,

> few days ago, exim4 stopped working here. The messages are not sent via
> SMTP smarthost and are marked frozen instead. Debug log shows some TLS
> problems, but I cannot explain where they come from, see below. I
> checked the file /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail, it has always a
> value larger then 3500.
[...]
> initialized GnuTLS session
> Fatal: no entropy gathering module detected
[...]

That is a gcrypt error. Is /dev/random and /dev/urandom worldreadable?
              cu andreas
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