[Pkg-exim4-users] Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)

[Gary Dale]

Interesting. I guess the system found some entropy overnight because 
this morning I found a flood of pent-up messages in my in-box. Some of 
them were more than 24 hours old. I guess the good news is that I do 
have my system configured properly.

However, the delay is unacceptable. I found an entropy-generator on the 
Debian Wiki (http://wiki.debian.org/PkgExim4KnownBugsInSarge) that runs 
off of a maildir, but my server isn't used for mail and it doesn't get a 
lot of file activity either.

Do I need file activity to get a good entropy generator or can I 
generate it using static files - such as documents that don't change 
very often?


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Marc Haber wrote:

>On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 06:20:43PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote:
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>>Anyway, the immediate problem I'm having in trying to debug this is that 
>>every message I try to send ends showing up in the queue and logs as 
>>"Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message)". The 
>>messages stay in that state until they drop out of the queue after 24 hours.
>>    
>>
>
>Maybe you have the usual (and yet unsolved) GnuTLS entropy issue. Has
>your system enough entropy?
>
>Greetings
>Marc
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No. I'm running a 2.6.15 kernel to facilitate PPTP and this apparently
is bad for entropy. Mine is currently reading between 2 and 50, which I
understand is way too low.

Any suggestions?