Fwd: Error: Initialization of secure memory

cav <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.ids.prelude.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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From: cav <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: [prelude-user] Error: Initialization of secure memory
To: Yoann Vandoorselaere <[email protected]>




On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Yoann Vandoorselaere <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Cavell,
>
> Le mercredi 11 juin 2008 à 15:17 -0500, cav a écrit :
> > Libprelude version - 0.9.16.2-2. So I upgraded to the latest version
> > from the Prelude IDS website, and re-installed all the required
> > packages. I am still getting the same error when i try to register the
> > sensor.
> >
> > Any help will be appreciated.
>
> Could you try setting the environement variable as specified in my
> previous mail, and tell us if you get any debug output:
>
> LIBPRELUDE_DEBUG=10 LIBPRELUDE_TLS_DEBUG=10 prelude-admin [...]


So I did the above and here is the output:

prompt# LIBPRELUDE_DEBUG=10 LIBPRELUDE_TLS_DEBUG=10 prelude-admin register
prelude-lml "idmef:w admin:r" localhost
13 Jun 09:43:47 (process:2446) DEBUG: [init] thread used=1
(prelude-thread.c:297 _prelude_thread_in_use)
13 Jun 09:43:47 (process:2446) INFO: ASSERT: gnutls_global.c:243
13 Jun 09:43:47 (process:2446) INFO: Checking for libgcrypt failed '1.2.2'
Generating 1024 bits RSA private key... This might take a very long time.
[Increasing system activity will speed-up the process].
Generation in progress... operation is not possible without intitialized
secure memory


> >
> Additionally, attached is a patch that check for GnuTLS initialization
> failure within prelude-admin, could you please apply it and tell us
> whether you get any error message?


On applying the patch it gave me an error saying the gcrypt library version
was too old. So, I updated it. And now it works! Oh it works!

Thank you for the patch and all the help.

Regards,
Cavell

ps: It works!

>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> --
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