From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 23 1:12:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB5CE37B479 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 01:12:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gorean.org (Studded@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA72434; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 01:11:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <39F3F2AA.6FB63D0B@gorean.org> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 01:11:23 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-102 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Nelson Cc: "S.W.Liu" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0 start up problem References: <39EF8CA41E.AA74HHH@10.1.1.1> <20001022193932.A17400@dan.emsphone.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Oct 20), S.W.Liu said: > > I update my system (4.1) to 5.0(oct, 2000), but when I start up my > > system , it hang when ldconfig, no response, why? > > It's a problem with the /dev/random device. I have worked around it by > adding "date > /dev/random" at the top of /etc/rc. ERrr... that's not such a good idea. If you are running -current, make sure your rc files are up to date, and do your restart with 'shutdown -r now' so that rc.shutdown gets run and your /entropy file gets written. This has all been covered on the -current mailing list recently, which you should be reading if you're running RELENG_5. Doug -- "The dead cannot be seduced." - Kai, "Lexx" Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message