[Bug 1636573] Re: xinit flooding syslog

[Mike]

On 16.04 LTS xenial, manually downloading and installing

http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/pyopenssl/python-openssl_16.1.0-1_all.deb
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/python-cryptography/python-cryptography_1.7.1-2_amd64.deb

solved this problem for me. Because each package breaks the version of
the other installed by default on 16.04 LTS xenial, the two packages
must be installed _together_ with an override:

sudo dpkg -i --force-breaks python-cryptography_1.7.1-2_amd64.deb
python-openssl_16.1.0-1_all.deb

In my case, I also needed to install the standard "python-setuptools"
package from the standard distribution repository, after which manual
configuration was necessary:

sudo dpkg --configure --force-breaks python-cryptography python-openssl

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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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