From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 15 13:39: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from pozo.com (pozo.com [216.101.162.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A650B37B503 for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2000 13:39:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dual.pozo.com (dual.pozo.com [216.101.162.51]) by pozo.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id e9FKd6F79772 for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2000 13:39:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from null@pozo.com) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.2.20001015133002.00a598e8@pozo.com> X-Sender: null@pozo.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 13:39:05 -0700 To: current@freebsd.org From: Manfred Antar Subject: Entropy file problem Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG When setting entropy_file="/var/db/entropy" in rc.conf This error happens: No entropy file, trying other sources After a few minutes the machine continues booting /var is mounted on a separate partition from / Setting to : entropy_file="/tmp/entropy" This happens: Reading entropy file rm: /tmp/entropy: Read-only file system machine boots normally except for the above error Setting to: entropy_file="NO" the machine hangs at: setting ELF ldconfig path: /usr/lib /usr/lib/compat /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/local/lib. break to debugger and reboot is needed. Then have to boot -s and edit rc.conf and set entropy file to something. Manfred ================================== || null@pozo.com || || Ph. (415) 681-6235 || ================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message