Bug#759590: Error in GnuTLS initialization: Failed to acquire random data.

[Evgeni Golov]

Hi Bob,

thanks for your debugging,

On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 01:31:39AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Klaus,
> 
> >   $ gnutls-cli
> >   Error in GnuTLS initialization: Failed to acquire random data.
> 
> Are you setting LD_PRELOAD to libeatmydata.so?  I am.  This is
> definitely related to the problem for me.  Is it for you too?
> 
>   $ env -i gnutls-cli
>   No hostname specified
> 
>   $ env -i LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libeatmydata/libeatmydata.so gnutls-cli
>   Error in GnuTLS initialization: Failed to acquire random data.
>   No hostname specified
> 
>   $ unset LD_PRELOAD ; gnutls-cli
>   No hostname specified

I can reproduce the original mutt issue, when wrapping mutt with 
eatmydata. The interesting thing is, that mutt will open urandom via
 open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY)
when started directly, but not, when eatmydata is involved.
This seems to be the issue for the eatmydata case. Not sure about the 
others, though.

Greets
Evgeni

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