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 <email address hidden> 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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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1636573
>
> 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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