[Bug 1636573] Re: xinit flooding syslog

Fri Nov 9 22:21:09 UTC 2018

Do a clean install (NOT AN UPGRADE) of Mint 19 - that fixes the problem for
Kodi.  Mint 18.3 is using is based on an older Ubuntu.   The clean install
is not much harder than an upgrade, and gives a better result.  BUT, using
a live CD or USB to do some testing of Mint 19 on your hardware to make
sure that it is fully compatible, before doing the install.  Having a
separate partition for you /home folders also makes a clean install much
easier.

RoyG

On Sat, 10 Nov 2018 at 18:15, anewguy <1636573 at bugs.launchpad.net>
wrote:

> I just ran into this same problem with Linux Mint when I went from
> version 18 to version 18.3.  I see it uses a lot of things from Ubuntu
> Zenial.  I tried the download links in Mike's post above from 2017 but
> the links have expired or something else as they no longer work.  I know
> Mint is different from Ubuntu but I know it is also based on Ubuntu, so
> I hope it was ok to post here.  Looking for help getting this to work.
> Kodi issues an error about current crypto being 1.2.3 but needing 1.7.
> I does look like i have the 1.2.3 package installed.  I don't know how
> to get the 2 packages Mike mentioned above.  I am also an idiot at most
> of this but hoping I can do what's needed to fix this.
>
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> Title:
>   xinit flooding syslog
>
> Status in pyOpenSSL:
>   Fix Released
> Status in pyopenssl package in Ubuntu:
>   Fix Released
> Status in pyopenssl source package in Yakkety:
>   Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
>   I am using xinit (1.3.4-3ubuntu1) to start an X11 session as follows
>   (kodi is a media center):
>
>   /usr/bin/xinit /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session /usr/bin/kodi-
>   standalone -- :1 -nolisten tcp vt8
>
>   This used to work fine with Ubuntu 16.04, but since the upgrade to
>   16.10 lots of log messages are sent to syslog. They are all
>   repetitions of the following two lines:
>
>   Oct 24 22:54:50 tiger xinit[26430]: extern "Python": function
> Cryptography_rand_bytes() called, but @ffi.def_extern() was not called in
> the current subinterpreter.  Returning 0.
>   Oct 24 22:54:50 tiger xinit[26430]: extern "Python": function
> Cryptography_rand_status() called, but @ffi.def_extern() was not called in
> the current subinterpreter.  Returning 0.
>
>   These messages amount to >200 GB per day, so this is eating up all the
>   disk space.
>
>   ProblemType: Bug
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
>   Package: xorg 1:7.7+13ubuntu4
>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-22.24-generic 4.8.0
>   Uname: Linux 4.8.0-22-generic x86_64
>   NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia
>   ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8
>   Architecture: amd64
>   CurrentDesktop: KDE
>   Date: Tue Oct 25 18:41:22 2016
>   EcryptfsInUse: Yes
>   InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-01-06 (1753 days ago)
>   InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64
> (20111012)
>   SourcePackage: xorg
>   Symptom: display
>   UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2016-10-13 (11 days ago)
>
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Title:
  xinit flooding syslog

Status in pyOpenSSL:
  Fix Released
Status in pyopenssl package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in pyopenssl source package in Yakkety:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  I am using xinit (1.3.4-3ubuntu1) to start an X11 session as follows
  (kodi is a media center):

  /usr/bin/xinit /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session /usr/bin/kodi-
  standalone -- :1 -nolisten tcp vt8

  This used to work fine with Ubuntu 16.04, but since the upgrade to
  16.10 lots of log messages are sent to syslog. They are all
  repetitions of the following two lines:

  Oct 24 22:54:50 tiger xinit[26430]: extern "Python": function Cryptography_rand_bytes() called, but @ffi.def_extern() was not called in the current subinterpreter.  Returning 0.
  Oct 24 22:54:50 tiger xinit[26430]: extern "Python": function Cryptography_rand_status() called, but @ffi.def_extern() was not called in the current subinterpreter.  Returning 0.

  These messages amount to >200 GB per day, so this is eating up all the
  disk space.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
  Package: xorg 1:7.7+13ubuntu4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-22.24-generic 4.8.0
  Uname: Linux 4.8.0-22-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: KDE
  Date: Tue Oct 25 18:41:22 2016
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-01-06 (1753 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
  SourcePackage: xorg
  Symptom: display
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2016-10-13 (11 days ago)

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