Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 17:50:36 +0100 From: Harald Schmalzbauer <harry@schmalzbauer.de> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: /dev/random too hungry? Errormsg: PRNG is not seeded Message-ID: <200512201750.44773@harrymail>
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--nextPart2761354.32hUjrj4sV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hello, I have one box where PRNG kickstart doesn't work. Whne I set 'sysctl kern.random.sys.seeded=3D0' and=20 'cat /boot/kernel/kernel.gz > /dev/random' .random.sys.seeded is still 0. On any other box it's enough to send one byte and .sys.seeded returns to 1 I found that when installing a new server and trying to usually start sshd. (ssh-keygen quits immediately with the error: PRNG is not seeded) I'm not very familar with random or entropy stuff so please tell me what to= =20 do. Nothing uncommon so far with that box (besides it starts from CompactFlash= =20 with memorydisk for /var / and /tmp): kern.random.yarrow.gengateinterval: 10 kern.random.yarrow.bins: 10 kern.random.yarrow.fastthresh: 192 kern.random.yarrow.slowthresh: 256 kern.random.yarrow.slowoverthresh: 2 kern.random.sys.seeded: 0 kern.random.sys.harvest.ethernet: 1 kern.random.sys.harvest.point_to_point: 1 kern.random.sys.harvest.interrupt: 1 kern.random.sys.harvest.swi: 0 interrupt total rate irq0: clk 1038776 998 irq1: atkbd0 2 0 irq3: sio1 2610 2 irq5: em0 133 0 irq7: ppc0 1 0 irq8: rtc 132946 127 irq10: fxp0 72 0 irq12: fwohci0++ 1 0 irq13: npx0 2 0 irq14: ata0 3110 2 irq15: ata1 202 0 Thanks in advance, =2DHarry --nextPart2761354.32hUjrj4sV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDqDZkBylq0S4AzzwRApU3AJ4xK7NNFpLYVQzRoOfhlKD05jEotACdE6jq hJbXyw5Gi5vVkr6oyuZVp14= =MyFL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2761354.32hUjrj4sV--
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