[Pkg-exim4-users] swaks tls error

James Hosken james at jamesho.co.uk
Sun Dec 6 15:54:50 UTC 2009


Andreas Metzler wrote:
> Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org> wrote:
>> James Hosken <james at jamesho.co.uk> wrote:
>> [...]
>>> 20:39:29  1854 SMTP<< STARTTLS
>>> 20:39:29  1854 initializing GnuTLS as a server
>>> Fatal: no entropy gathering module detected
>> [...]
>
>> The copy of libgcrypt11 that exim is linked against seems to be
>> broken. I would be quite surprised if the Debian packages
>> suffer from this problem, do you have a locally built copy, perhaps in
>> /usr/local/lib?
>
> Hello,
>
> let me correct that. I get this error message if either /dev/random or
> /dev/urandom are missing or inaccessible.
> cu andreas

Spot on!
I changed
crw-r----- 1 root root    1,  8 2009-04-19 12:28 random
crw-r----- 1 root root 1, 9 2009-12-06 15:12 urandom

to

crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 9 2009-12-06 14:52 urandom
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 8 2009-12-06 14:52 random

and it now works. Thanks for all the help.
James




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