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Date:      Tue, 19 Oct 2004 14:21:48 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: multi-user startup failure Pre-seeding PRNG:
Message-ID:  <20041019212148.GB93330@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <16757.28156.361400.647815@ran.psg.com>
References:  <16757.28156.361400.647815@ran.psg.com>

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On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 12:41:48PM -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
> 6-very-current
> thinkpad t41
> 
> lock up while going multi-user.  last message on console is
> "Pre-seeding PRNG:"
> 
> this is an old problem.  it is solved by removing the 'sysctl -a;'
> from 
>   /etc/rc.d/preseedrandom
>   /etc/rc.d/initrandom

The real question is: why is 'sysctl -a' hanging?

Kris

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