From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 20 16:56:07 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E88B16A41F for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2005 16:56:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Emanuel.strobl@gmx.net) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3229C43D68 for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2005 16:55:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Emanuel.strobl@gmx.net) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 20 Dec 2005 16:55:58 -0000 Received: from flb.schmalzbauer.de (EHLO cale.flintsbach.schmalzbauer.de) [62.245.232.135] by mail.gmx.net (mp018) with SMTP; 20 Dec 2005 17:55:58 +0100 X-Authenticated: #301138 From: Emanuel Strobl To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 17:55:47 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <200512201750.44773@harrymail> In-Reply-To: <200512201750.44773@harrymail> X-Birthday: Oct. 6th 1972 X-CelPhone: +49 (0) 173 9967781 X-Tel: +49 (0) 89 18947781 X-Country: Germany X-Address: Munich, 80686 X-OS: FreeBSD MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1854033.cAmuMP5nbg"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200512201755.55928@harrymail> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Cc: Harald Schmalzbauer Subject: Re: /dev/random too hungry? Errormsg: PRNG is not seeded X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 16:56:07 -0000 --nextPart1854033.cAmuMP5nbg Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Am Dienstag, 20. Dezember 2005 17:50 CEST schrieb Harald Schmalzbauer: > Hello, > > I have one box where PRNG kickstart doesn't work. > Whne I set 'sysctl kern.random.sys.seeded=0' and > '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 do. > Nothing uncommon so far with that box (besides it starts from > CompactFlash with memorydisk for /var / and /tmp): Sorry, forgot to mention it's RELENG_6 from today... > 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, > > -Harry --nextPart1854033.cAmuMP5nbg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDqDebBylq0S4AzzwRAvOBAJ4qcp+tTIAVm8PTep5EEuQIL1soXwCfS6bs kzkqQIYn8H+hbfCK366Bp7Q= =DeYO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1854033.cAmuMP5nbg--