From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 28 22:03:16 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1887D16A4CE for ; Fri, 28 May 2004 22:03:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.sandvine.com (sandvine.com [199.243.201.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A46843D1D for ; Fri, 28 May 2004 22:03:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from don@sandvine.com) Received: by mail.sandvine.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) id ; Sat, 29 May 2004 00:46:39 -0400 Message-ID: From: Don Bowman To: "'current@freebsd.org'" Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 00:46:38 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: blocking entropy device, serial console? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 05:03:16 -0000 I must confess i find this kind of humourous... I'd just booted the system, in single user mode. I have just a serial console. This message popped out when i tried to run vi /etc/fstab: Entropy device is blocking. Dance fandango on keyboard to unblock. catch is, i'm stuck now... the vi process is blocked (load: 0.28 cmd: vi 167 [block] 0.00u 0.01s 0% 1256k) i can't ^C or anything. suggestions on what this might be? is this normal? I've never seen this before? I tried hitting keys on the serial for a while, but nothing happened. --don