Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 16:09:02 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com> Cc: "'current@freebsd.org'" <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: blocking entropy device, serial console? Message-ID: <20040529160532.C18355@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C85337051D8DCE@mail.sandvine.com> References: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C85337051D8DCE@mail.sandvine.com>
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On Sat, 29 May 2004, Don Bowman wrote: > 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. Apparently entropy is only generated for local keyboards. Even with local keyboards, it can take a lot of keys to unblock. Copying a disk drive to /dev/null dances faster (at least for ata drives). Bruce
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