rjk-nntp-tools: gcrypt library requires initialization before use

Richard Kettlewell rjk at terraraq.org.uk
Wed Jul 6 19:16:37 BST 2011


On 06/07/2011 09:38, Matthew Vernon wrote:
> On 06/07/11 08:48, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>> On 05/07/2011 12:35, Matthew Vernon wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I noticed log entries of the form "lj2news: Libgcrypt warning: missing
>>> initialization - please fix the application". lj2news and bzr2news in
>>> the version (0.21) that I have handy both use libgcrypt functions
>>> without doing this. Section 2.4 of the gcrypt manual discusses the
>>> initialisation functions:
>>>
>>> http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gcrypt/Initializing-the-library.html#Initializing-the-library
>>>
>>
>> I don't think I've ever seen this message. Where do you see it and what
>> version of gcrypt are you using?
>
> I see it in syslog (I'm usually invoking lj2news from a cron script, but
> this happens when running it from the command-line too). The exact thing
> in syslog is:
> Jul 6 09:35:25 b144-mcv1-mlt lj2news: Libgcrypt warning: missing
> initialization - please fix the application
>
> I have Debian stable's gcrypt, which is libgcrypt11, Version: 1.4.5-2

Thanks.  Fixed in git.

ttfn/rjk



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