Bug#348046: Same problem with exim4-daemon-light

Andreas Metzler ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org
Sat Oct 7 13:08:52 UTC 2006


On 2006-10-05 Vincent Lefevre <vincent at vinc17.org> wrote:
> My laptop has been connected for several days to another network,
> where TLS is used for the mail. And I get the error "TLS error on
> connection to pilet.ens-lyon.fr [140.77.167.16] (gnutls_handshake):
> A TLS packet with unexpected length was received." on (almost)
> every morning for the first message I send. This would be consistent
> with a lack of entropy (but to be sure, I'll try to log the output
> of /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail in RRDTool).

> I have exim4-daemon-light 4.63-3 and libgnutls13 1.4.4-1.

Having this happen for just the first message sugggests is very
strange. There is nothing in exim or gnutls that should behave
differently for the second run. (Entropy starvage cannot be the cause
either, as this is only a issue for *incoming* connections).

cu andreas
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