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Date:      Sat, 01 Nov 2014 17:57:11 -0600
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dag-Erling =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
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:  <1414886231.17308.238.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
In-Reply-To: <86mw8a5we0.fsf@nine.des.no>
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>  <86mw8a5we0.fsf@nine.des.no>

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On Sun, 2014-11-02 at 00:33 +0100, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no> writes:
> > From the code.  This is a portion of the rc script that only runs at
> > shutdown.  If random_stop() runs during boot, something is seriously
> > wrong *somewhere else* and you are welcome to help find out what.
>=20
> I found it - postrandom triggers it.  For now, just remove
> /etc/rc.d/postrandom (I'm not sure it's really needed, there are better
> ways to do this).
>=20
> DES

It appears another quick easy workaround is to set entropy_file=3DNO in
rc.conf, which may be the right thing to do for people using a varmfs
that isn't going to survive a reboot anyway, even after this glitch is
fixed.

-- Ian





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