[Swan] Libreswan 5.0rc2 cannot start on debian bullseye

Andrew Cagney andrew.cagney at gmail.com
Tue Apr 2 17:11:23 EEST 2024


On Tue, 2 Apr 2024 at 09:30, antonio via Swan <swan at lists.libreswan.org> wrote:
>
> Solved, it was an issue with the kernel…by mistake I was loading an old kernel linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64  boot it with a newer kernel and it's ok.
> Sorry.

Thanks for following this up.  I guess this was the fineprint:

> [1711649620] libunbound[20384:0] error: nettle random(yarrow) cannot initialize, getentropy failed: Function not implemented

I see what happened next isn't pretty.  The message was misleading,
and the shutdown was a mess:

> Mar 28 19:13:40.674728: FATAL ERROR: failed to initialize unbound libevent ABI, please recompile libunbound with libevent support or recompile libreswan without USE_DNSSEC
> Mar 28 19:13:40.674846: WARNING: helper threads still running
> Mar 28 19:13:40.675075: helper(1): seccomp security for helper not supported
> Mar 28 19:13:40.677629: FATAL: ASSERTION FAILED: event_initialized(ev) (free_signal_handlers() +448 programs/pluto/server.c)
> Aborted

file a bug if you want.


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