[Dovecot] dovecot crash

[Simon Bell]

ok. for your information the distro im running is Fedora Core 1

Simon 

-----Original Message-----
From: dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org] On
Behalf Of Timo Sirainen
Sent: 29 January 2004 22:27
To: admin at thelight.org.uk
Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] dovecot crash

On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 14:58, Simon Bell wrote:
> I woke up this morning and my dovecot server had died with the following
in
> the dovecot.log file:
> 
> pop3-login: Jan 23 10:23:08 Fatal: RAND_bytes() failed:
> error:24064064:random number generator:SSLEAY_RAND_BYTES:PRNG not seeded
> 
> dovecot: Jan 23 10:23:08 Error: Login process died too early - shutting
down
> dovecot: Jan 23 10:23:08 Error: child 16321 (login) returned error 89
> 
> How can I find out whats going wrong?

OpenSSL weirdness. By default OpenSSL is using /dev/urandom to fetch the
random data, as long as urandom exists. Otherwise it'll try something
else.. But looks like some Linux distros are nowadays doing something
weird and don't have RAND_bytes() working that way, probably trying to
use /dev/random and failing if there's not enough randomness.

Does anyone else have some more information about this? I'm not sure
what to do about this.

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