curl and wget not working with https sites after upgrade to ubuntu 18.04.1

Question

Seems to be a openssl related issue. Anyone have any ideas as to what this is?

Note that the url works in a browser.

With wget:

# wget -d https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x

DEBUG output created by Wget 1.19.4 on linux-gnu.

Reading HSTS entries from /home/user/.wget-hsts
URI encoding = ‘UTF-8’
Converted file name 'setup_8.x' (UTF-8) -> 'setup_8.x' (UTF-8)
--2018-09-02 19:54:06--  https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x
Could not seed PRNG; consider using --random-file.
OpenSSL: error:2406F07A:random number generator:RAND_load_file:Not a regular file
Disabling SSL due to encountered errors.

With curl:

# curl -v -L https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x

*   Trying 205.251.207.2...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to deb.nodesource.com (205.251.207.2) port 443 (#0)

<hangs>

Answer 1

Maybe this helps: https://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=227

When using wget with https, if you get the following error:

Could not seed PRNG; consider using --random-file.
Disabling SSL due to encountered errors.

It means that the udev daemon may be in physical mode. Create the /dev/random device manually:

mknod /dev/random c 1 8