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

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2006-10-08 Vincent Lefevre <vincent at vinc17.org> wrote:
> On 2006-10-07 15:08:52 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > 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).

> Are you sure?

Quite sure, yes.

> I've just done a test on this machine, to which I've
> opened 2 SSH connections. With one of them, I've sent a mail. With
> the other one:
[...]
> The entropy dropped from 3462 to 4 just after I've sent the mail!

For outgoing TLS exim reads from /dev/urandom which *does* drain
entropy but switches to a prng instead of blocking when there is no
more entropy.

> Concerning the mail, it is still in the queue, but the exim4 log file
> doesn't show any error! And "exim -qff" doesn't solve the problem.
> Here are the contents of /var/log/exim4/mainlog:

[...]
> 2006-10-08 00:22:13 1GWKYf-00043q-HN <= vincent at vinc17.org U=lefevre P=local S=778 id=20061007222213.GA15599 at ay.vinc17.org
> 2006-10-08 00:22:23 Start queue run: pid=15622
> 2006-10-08 00:22:23 1GWKYf-00043q-HN Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)
[...]

What does exiwhat say?
cu andreas
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