openssl: Can't load /home/[username]/.rnd into RNG

On Ubuntu 18.04 LTS I got the following error message:
Can't load /home/sniglom/.rnd into RNG

The solution was to comment out the following line in /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf:
RANDFILE = $ENV::HOME/.rnd

I found this solution via the openssl project at github.