Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 12:10:30 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Old laptop not able to get enough entropy in FreeBSD 11 Message-ID: <20161109121030.2f678bea@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <CALeGphz-dL9jwy7=8hN0p7YtmY=ad-dgi7Ee2NqRtuURk%2Bu1ew@mail.gmail.com> References: <CALeGphz-dL9jwy7=8hN0p7YtmY=ad-dgi7Ee2NqRtuURk%2Bu1ew@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 8 Nov 2016 20:24:21 -0800 Jack L. wrote: > I have an old single core AMD Turion ML-37 laptop that has nothing > installed. When I boot it up, the moment it displays login:, it hangs > until i press some random keys. At shutdown, it will hang until I > press keys and it will not move onto the next line of shutdown until > I keep pressing keys. > > If I cat /dev/random > ./dev/null while using the laptop, it works > fine but when nothing is happening, the laptop hangs. Any ideas? It's > running 11.0-STABLE FreeBSD's /dev/random isn't supposed to block once it's seeded, so it's very unlikely this has anything to do with entropy.
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