On 2006-10-07 15:08:52 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Having this happen for just the first message sugggests is very > strange. There is nothing in exim or gnutls that should behave > differently for the second run. (Entropy starvage cannot be the cause > either, as this is only a issue for *incoming* connections).
Are you sure? I've just done a test on this machine, to which I've opened 2 SSH connections. With one of them, I've sent a mail. With the other one: ay:~> cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail <0:21:27 2757 ay:~> cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail <0:21:30 3067 ay:~> cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail <0:21:56 3462 ay:~> cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail <0:22:11 4 ay:~> cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail <0:22:15 29 ay:~> cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail <0:22:24 The entropy dropped from 3462 to 4 just after I've sent the mail! Concerning the mail, it is still in the queue, but the exim4 log file doesn't show any error! And "exim -qff" doesn't solve the problem. Here are the contents of /var/log/exim4/mainlog: [...] 2006-10-08 00:12:23 Start queue run: pid=15334 2006-10-08 00:12:23 End queue run: pid=15334 2006-10-08 00:17:23 Start queue run: pid=15526 2006-10-08 00:17:23 End queue run: pid=15526 2006-10-08 00:22:13 1GWKYf-00043q-HN <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=lefevre P=local S=778 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-10-08 00:22:23 Start queue run: pid=15622 2006-10-08 00:22:23 1GWKYf-00043q-HN Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2006-10-08 00:22:23 End queue run: pid=15622 2006-10-08 00:24:28 Start queue run: pid=15630 -qff 2006-10-08 00:24:28 1GWKYf-00043q-HN Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2006-10-08 00:24:28 End queue run: pid=15630 -qff 2006-10-08 00:25:23 Start queue run: pid=15797 -qff 2006-10-08 00:25:23 1GWKYf-00043q-HN Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2006-10-08 00:25:23 End queue run: pid=15797 -qff 2006-10-08 00:27:23 Start queue run: pid=15859 2006-10-08 00:27:23 1GWKYf-00043q-HN Spool file is locked (another process is handling this message) 2006-10-08 00:27:23 End queue run: pid=15859 -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
