[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#803197: Exactly the same problem happens with sendmail.

[John Hughes]

On 30/12/2018 02:40, Ryan Tandy wrote:
>
> I'm sorry for not responding to this for so long, but do you recall 
> what release of Debian you saw this behaviour on?
>
squeeze (yes, it's completely out of date :( )


> I've been looking at this ticket again and it looks like in stretch 
> (Debian 9) and later, GnuTLS uses the getrandom() system call and does 
> not open/reopen anything. So I'm wondering whether you encountered 
> this problem in stretch as well, or only in jessie - or whether 
> getrandom() is for some reason not available on your setup and GnuTLS 
> falls back to opening urandom.
>
> If you still have the same problem on stretch or buster, I'd welcome 
> any info about how to set up a system to reproduce it.


I actually "fixed" it by rerouting the mail via a system running stretch.