From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 25 16:50:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from volatile.chemicals.tacorp.com (ci391991-a.grnvle1.sc.home.com [24.9.31.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0EBC37B479 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:50:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from morganw@localhost) by volatile.chemicals.tacorp.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id e9PNoSq00499; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 19:50:28 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from morganw) Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 19:50:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Wesley Morgan To: Mark Murray Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: entropy reseeding is totally broken In-Reply-To: <200010252213.e9PMD5p09234@grimreaper.grondar.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ok, I rebooted once and the entropy caching did not work. Changed entropy_file to point to /var/db/entropy, rebooted. Did not work. Commented out the entropy_file setting and rebooted... And it worked. Rebooted 5 times, worked every time. Laptop is working now. cvsup'd my desktop, ran mergemaster and it worked for 3 reboots... Now, the problem I am seeing is that not only do I get the same fortunes between reboots, but it is _always_ the same one: "Be ALERT (the world needs more lerts" has shown up first nearly every time for the past week. Waiting a few minutes to log in has no effect... Still the same one. Now I'm no expert on randomness and the like, but surely this can't be very random. I'll be eating my words tonight, but I swear it wasn't working for me :) (and yes i had the latest rc files). On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Mark Murray wrote: > I am not seeing this, and I am unable to reproduce it. > > i terefore need better info than "it is so" to do anything about it. > > Please get a complete log of the boot process (put a set -x in /etc/rc > while you are about it) and get that over to me. -- _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ Wesley N Morgan _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ morganw@chemicals.tacorp.com _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | FreeBSD: The Power To Serve _ |___/___/___/ 6bone: 3ffe:1ce3:7::b4ff:fe53:c297 Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message