nzbget fails to connect with GnuTLS error

[Michael Scafidi]

Release: Ubuntu Vivid Vervet (15.04)

When attempting to download any file with nzbget, even fetching nzbs themselves from a server, the following message is displayed:

TLS handshake failed: Error in the system's randomness device.

It seems to be an incompatibility between nzbget and the current gnutls that is shipped with Ubuntu 15.04 as this issue occurs even when compiling nzbget 13/14 from source. The issue can be avoided by configuring nzbget with:

--with-tlslib=OpenSSL

To force nzbget to use OpenSSL instead of GnuTLS.

This is my first bug report so please let me know if additional information is needed.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: nzbget 13.0+dfsg-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-7.7-generic 3.19.0
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-7-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.16.2-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Mon Mar 2 22:29:27 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-03-03 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Alpha amd64 (20150224)
SourcePackage: nzbget
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

This bug should be resolved with 14.2+dfsg-2 and later, can you test and report back please? Thanks.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for nzbget (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[satmandu (satadru-umich)]

This bug is back in the dev Yakkety nzbget 17.0 version.

[satmandu (satadru-umich)]

(By which I mean we get the "TLS handshake failed: Error in the system's randomness device." that was previously attributed to gnutls usage.)

[pdf (pdffs)]

Confirming, nzbget-17.0+dfsg-1 is inexplicably being built against GnuTLS again, so this bug is back.

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

Latest upload was built with openssl.