Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 00:42:17 +0100 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, Mark R V Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org>, Alexander Kabaev <kabaev@gmail.com> Subject: Re: svn commit: r273872 - in head: etc/defaults etc/rc.d libexec/save-entropy share/examples/kld/random_adaptor sys/conf sys/dev/glxsb sys/dev/random sys/kern sys/modules sys/modules/padlock_rng sys/mo... Message-ID: <86ioiy5vza.fsf@nine.des.no> In-Reply-To: <1414884894.17308.229.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> (Ian Lepore's message of "Sat, 01 Nov 2014 17:34:54 -0600") References: <201410302121.s9ULLsEw055630@svn.freebsd.org> <CAJ-Vmo=3At6wagbo1iqc_KAB3BvCh8cYcvPOD%2BppvNgmg7gXLg@mail.gmail.com> <20141101181536.2b6a5911@kan> <627C5F71-939A-4579-8A1B-45933662DAED@FreeBSD.org> <1414882185.17308.221.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <86r3xm5wt6.fsf@nine.des.no> <1414884894.17308.229.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
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Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org> writes: > and so it tries to write an entropy file at startup and hangs, > presumably because /dev/random hasn't been sufficiently fed to > generate that much random output? That's problem #2, /dev/random *should* be unblocked by then. BTW, there is no such thing as being "sufficiently fed to generate that much random output". Yarrow doesn't work that way. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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