Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 02:03:00 +0800 From: Alastair Hogge <agh@fastmail.fm> To: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysctl: unknown oid 'kern.random.sys.harvest.interrupt Message-ID: <20130921180258.GB3069@direwolf.aux.io> In-Reply-To: <20130921124656.795536d0@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <20130916172139.GA1297@devbox.vnode.local> <20130921031424.GA3069@direwolf.aux.io> <20130921124656.795536d0@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On 2013-09-21 Sat 12:46:56 +0100, RW wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 11:14:29 +0800
> Alastair Hogge wrote:
>
> > On 2013-09-16 Mon 19:21:39 +0200, Joel Dahl wrote:
> > > Hi,
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > > I noticed the following during boot on a machine running HEAD from
> > > today:
> >
> > I have noticed this since the recent work to /sys/dev/random
> >
> > > Entropy harvesting:sysctl: unknown oid
> > > 'kern.random.sys.harvest.interrupt': No such file or directory
> > > interruptssysctl: unknown oid 'kern.random.sys.harvest.ethernet':
> > > No such file or directory ethernetsysctl: unknown oid
> > > 'kern.random.sys.harvest.point_to_point': No such file or directory
> > > point_to_point kickstart.
> > >
> > > Known problem?
>
> It looks like /etc/rc.d/initrandom is no longer correctly checking for
> whether the software generator is in use, so it tries to set sysctls
> that don't exist. Those partiticular warnings look harmless.
>
> It might be that writing to /dev/random which occurs immediatly after is
> causing the problem. Try commenting out the following:
>
> # First pass at reseeding /dev/random.
> #
> case ${entropy_file} in
> [Nn][Oo] | '')
> ;;
> *)
> if [ -w /dev/random ]; then
> feed_dev_random "${entropy_file}"
> fi
> ;;
> esac
>
> better_than_nothing
This seems to have worked. 4 successful reboots into multiuser mode.
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