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Date:      Fri, 25 Nov 2016 20:06:55 -0800
From:      "Jack L." <xxjack12xx@gmail.com>
To:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Old laptop not able to get enough entropy in FreeBSD 11
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On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 7:32 PM, Bertram Scharpf <lists@bertram-scharpf.de>
wrote:

> On Friday, 25. Nov 2016, 18:31:24 -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
> > >
> > > Any ideas on why the laptop would have that behavior in 11? It didn't
> hang
> > > at all in 10.3-STABLE
> > >
> > >>
> > >> I just installed 12-CURRENT on the laptop and it also hangs even at
> > install/boot/shutdown until I hit keys, then it will move as long as I
> > continue to hit keys. I also found that if I ping the laptop, it will
> > respond but in between pings, it will hang. Using FreeBSD 10.3, it works
> > perfectly fine without any random keypresses. Any ideas?
>
> I'm convinced this behaviour it worth being analysed.
>
> Can you gain any knowlegde by calling cat through truss?
>

How should I run that?

>
> Bertram
>

>
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