[Bug 1636573] Re: xinit flooding syslog

[Evgeny]

I have the same problem & don't know what to do.
Linux Mint 18.1
Kodi version: 2:17.0~git20170210.1529-final-0xenial

Trying to get in third-party repo. Kodi's flooding into file /var/log/syslog >30gb of two strings:
extern "Python": function Cryptography_rand_bytes() called, but @ffi.def_extern() was not called in the current subinterpreter. Returning 0.
extern "Python": function Cryptography_rand_status() called, but @ffi.def_extern() was not called in the current subinterpreter. Returning 0.

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Title:
  xinit flooding syslog

Status in pyopenssl package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in xorg package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

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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