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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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Subject: Re: multi-user startup failure Pre-seeding PRNG:
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On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 12:41:48PM -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
> 6-very-current
> thinkpad t41
>=20
> lock up while going multi-user.  last message on console is
> "Pre-seeding PRNG:"
>=20
> this is an old problem.  it is solved by removing the 'sysctl -a;'
> from=20
>   /etc/rc.d/preseedrandom
>   /etc/rc.d/initrandom

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

Kris

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